Indo-Aryan Languages This article presents the historical development of the Indo-Aryan family of languages, one of the major language families of the world. These languages, spoken in the northern half of the Indian subcontinent and in Sri Lanka, are direct descendants of S http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/1335/Lang/prakrit.html Geocities.com~Site InfoWhoisTrace RouteRBL Check
Hindi-Urdu FAQ Similarities, differences, origins, and political status of the two languages. http://www.geocities.com/sikmirza/arabic/hindustani.html Geocities.com~Site InfoWhoisTrace RouteRBL Check
About Hindi-Urdu Discusses the history of these two speech forms, essentially considering them as versions of the same language. http://sasw.chass.ncsu.edu/fl/faculty/taj/hindi/abturdu.htm Ncsu.edu~Site InfoWhoisTrace RouteRBL Check
Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate Online version of a book by Koenraad Elst, published by Aditya Prakashan in New Delhi (India). It oulines the latest arguments (including those in linguistics) for and against the prehistoric invasion of India by Indo-European speakers. http://www.bharatvani.org/books/ait/ Bharatvani.org~Site InfoWhoisTrace RouteRBL Check
Bangani Collection of links to linguistic discussions about Bangani, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the lower Himalayas (India). Bangani has some features in common with the "kentum" (Western European, Greek and Tokharian) rather than the "satem http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/bangani.html Umich.edu~Site InfoWhoisTrace RouteRBL Check