Meaning of Indic | Babel Free

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A branch of the Indo-European family of languages comprising Sanskrit and its modern descendants such as Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi.

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“Second, it is the only group that directly attests to a period of common development between two branches of the Indo-European family, namely, Indic and Iranian.”

“Similar transfers in Indic are fewer in number owing to the early loss of the aor.: for example, the pres. cayate 'notices' (aoristic root ci-, PIE *kʷey) is in origin the subj. of root aorist ácet, and displaces the earlier redup. Pres cikéṣi (AV), imperf. áciket (RV).”

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