Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-dh8gc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T12:01:10.801Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Preservation of original Aryan vocabulary in the modern languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

R. L. Turner
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The oldest texts—Rgveda and Avesta—of the Indie (Indo-aryan) and Iranian languages, which together form the Aryan family, agree in much of their vocabulary, as well as in much of their grammar and syntax.

Type
Notes and Communications
Information
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , October 1979 , pp. 545 - 547
Copyright
Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1979

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Signs and abbreviations are as in CDIAL with the addition of Iranian and other dialects either not found therein or in a different form: Bg. = Bengali, CDIAL = Comparative dictionary of the Indo-aryan languages by R. L. Turner, Ḍum. = Ḍumāki, et al. = and others, EVSh. = Etymological vocabulary of the Shughni group by Georg Morgenstierne, Gj. = Gujarāti, Hi. = Hindī, Kash. = Kāshmīrī, Khu. = Khufi, Lah. = Lahndā, Mar. = Marāṭhī, Nep. = Nepāli, Orosh. = Oroshori, Pj. = Panjābī, Pras. = Prasun, Rosh. = Roshani, Si. = Sindhī, Snh. = Sinhalese.