“DARDIC”
“NORTHERN ZONE”
“NORTHWESTERN ZONE”
“WESTERN ZONE”
“EASTERN ZONE”
“SOUTHERN ZONE”
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*aka ‘indic languages’*
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(the indo-aryan or indic languages are the dominant language family of the ‘indian subcontinent’+ ‘south asia’, spoken largely by ‘indo-aryan’ people)
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(they constitute a branch of the ‘indo-iranian languages’, itself a branch of the ‘indo-european’ language family)
*’indo-aryan’ speakers form ~ 1/2 of all ‘indo-european’ speakers*
(~ ‘1.5 billion’ of ‘3 billion’ total)
(…and more than half of all ‘indo-european’ languages recognized by ‘ethnologue’)
(while the languages are primarily spoken in South Asia, pockets of Indo-Aryan languages are found to be spoken in Europe and the ‘Middle East’)
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(the largest in terms of native speakers are…)
‘Hindustani’
(Hindi-Urdu, about 250 million),
Bengali
(about 200 million),
Punjabi
(about 100 million),
Marathi
(about 70 million),
Gujarati
(about 50 million),
Rajasthani (about 50 million),
Bhojpuri (about 40 million),
Awadhi (about 38 million),
Maithili (about 30 million),
Odia (about 30 million),
Sindhi (about 25 million),
Braj Bhasha (about 21 million),
Saraiki (about 20 million),
Chhattisgarhi (about 18 million),
Nepali (about 16 million),
Sinhala (about 15 miilion),
Assamese (about 15 million),
Haryanvi (about 13 million),
Kannauji (about 9 million),
Bagheli (about 8 million),
Kashmiri (about 6 million),
Dogri
(about 4 million)
‘bundeli’
(about 3 million)
‘garhwali’
(about 3 million)
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‘kumaoni’
(about 2 million)
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*with a total number of native speakers of more than ‘900 million’*
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👈👈👈☜*“INDO-IRANIAN LANGUAGES”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥