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The Indo-Aryan languages

by Colin P. Masica

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  • _emacsomancer_ · Jun 7, 2019 · Recommends

    …https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/46072 (had I known, I would have linked it earlier/higher in the thread, since it's very relevant) its bibliography is also good for further reading] For the earlier development of modern Indo-Aryan languages from Sanskrit: (2) Jules Bloch (ed. & translated by A. Master). 1965. Indo-Aryan from the Vedas to modern times. Paris: Adrien-Maisonneuve. For a good general overall (including history and other things)…

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  • lgessler · Jun 5, 2019 · Mentions

    …either, with the possible exception of ezafe[1] (which both Hindi and Urdu speakers are perfectly able to comprehend, even if they do not produce it). edit: this is Colin Masica's take in his book The Indo-Aryan Languages (p.27): > The ultimate anomaly in the what-is-a-language dilemma in Indo-Aryan is presented by the Hindi-Urdu situation. Counted as different languages in sociocultural Sense B (and officially), Urdu…

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