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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to India or its peoples or cultures.
  • adjective Of or relating to the branch of the Indo-European language family comprising Sanskrit, the Prakrits, and their modern descendants, such as Bengali, Hindi-Urdu, and Punjabi.
  • noun The Indic branch of Indo-European.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noting a hypothetical acid which, in the form of its potassium salt, C16H11N2O3K, is obtained by boiling indin, an isomer of indigo, with alcoholic potassium hydroxid. The salt is deposited in small black crystals.
  • An abbreviation of indicative.
  • Originating or flourishing in India: a comprehensive epithet sometimes applied to the Indo-European (Aryan) languages of India, including the ancient Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Pali, and the modern Hindi, Hindustani, Marathi, Bengali, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun linguistics A branch of the Indo-European family of languages comprising Sanskrit and its modern descendants such as Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi.
  • adjective Pertaining to this group of languages.
  • adjective Pertaining to India or its people or culture; Indian.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages

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Examples

  • The absence of widespread usage of FOSS has, consequently, restricted the growth of software in Indic language, and this in turn, has starved the spread of computer to larger Indian commercial and home segments.

    Archive 2007-05-10 Venky 2007

  • It's called Indic, for short, and it's a think-tank.

    Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970

  • I feel that parśu- is probably a later innovation, either because of a tendency to make it look more 'Indic', or as the above mentioned syncope.

    Battling the Indo-European axe 2009

  • The Indic limb of the Indo-Iranian branch includes two venerable ancient languages.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Altogether, over 900 million people—well over twice as many as speak English as a first language—use an Indic language as a native tongue.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • The Indic limb of the Indo-Iranian branch includes two venerable ancient languages.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Altogether, over 900 million people—well over twice as many as speak English as a first language—use an Indic language as a native tongue.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Renie believes that Indic languages are under-represented in the IndiBlogger. in community, but the distribution between various Indic languages should be representative.

    Global Voices in English » The IndiBlogger.in State of the Indian Blogosphere 2009 2009

  • I can understand Indic (the main Indian English dialect) with no problem, but some north of England dialects, as well as some Caribbean ones ... no.

    Dialect and Language discussion - pulled from another thread . . . 2009

  • I can understand Indic (the main Indian English dialect) with no problem, but some north of England dialects, as well as some Caribbean ones ... no.

    Dialect and Language discussion - pulled from another thread . . . 2009

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