Aryan Language

Aryan language is a term not generally used by today's linguists merely for political reasons, but is encountered often in works published in the 19th century and most of the 20th century to mean:

  • The Old Persian language
  • The Vedic Sanskrit language
  • The Proto-Indo-Iranian language
  • Any of the Indo-Iranian languages
  • In works published in the late 19th century and early 20th century, this term, or the term Proto-Aryan, was sometimes used to describe the Proto-Indo-European language.
  • In works published in the late 19th century and early 20th century, this term in the plural was sometimes used as a synonym for the Indo-European languages

Famous quotes containing the word language:

    The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
    Richard Rorty (b. 1931)