Linguistic History Of The Indian Subcontinent
The languages of India are divided into two large groups, the Indo-Aryan languages and the Dravidian languages, with a smaller number of languages belonging to unrelated phyla such as Tibeto-Burman. Linguistic records begin with the appearance of the Brāhmī script from about the 6th century BC.
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