Aryan Languages

Aryan languages may refer to the following:

• The Indo-Iranian languages as a whole
  • Indo-Aryan languages, one of the two main branches of Indo-Iranian languages
  • Iranian languages, the other main branch of the Indo-Iranian languages
• Aryan languages is also used by 19th century linguists to refer to the Indo-European languages as a whole, but the scholarly use of use of this term in this sense ended between about 1905 and 1910 and is obsolete in modern linguistic literature; however it continued to be used in this sense in the early decades of the 20th century by authors writing for the popular mass market such H.G. Wells