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

  • adjective Of, relating to, or being a member of an Indic-speaking people.
  • adjective Of or relating to the Indic branch of Indo-European.
  • noun A member of an Indic-speaking people.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the Indic division of the Aryan family.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to the Indo-Aryans, or designating, or of, the Aryan languages of India.
  • noun A member of one of the native races of India of Aryan speech and blood, characterized by tall stature, dolichocephaly, fair complexion with dark hair and eyes, plentiful beard, and narrow and prominent nose.

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

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Indo-Aryan languages and people.
  • noun A speaker of Indo-Aryan languages.
  • proper noun A branch of Indo-Iranian and thus Indo-European language family, with a total number of native speakers of more than 900 million, chiefly in India.

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

  • adjective of or relating to the former Indo-European people
  • noun a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages

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  • Together with Sinhala, Dhivehi represents a special subgroup within the Modern Indo-Aryan languages which is called Insular Indo-Aryan.

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  • Thus it is probably Dhivehi, which Wikipedia tells us is: an Indo-Aryan language closely related to the Sinhalese language of Sri Lanka.

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  • Dhivehi represents the southernmost Indo-Aryan language.

    What language? 2009

  • Thus it is probably Dhivehi, which Wikipedia tells us is: an Indo-Aryan language closely related to the Sinhalese language of Sri Lanka.

    What language? 2009

  • The Indo-Aryan languages are in fact a part of the Indo-European family (Wikipedia):

    What language? 2009

  • Dhivehi represents the southernmost Indo-Aryan language.

    What language? 2009

  • Together with Sinhala, Dhivehi represents a special subgroup within the Modern Indo-Aryan languages which is called Insular Indo-Aryan.

    What language? 2009

  • Together with Sinhala, Dhivehi represents a special subgroup within the Modern Indo-Aryan languages which is called Insular Indo-Aryan.

    What language? 2009

  • Thus it is probably Dhivehi, which Wikipedia tells us is: an Indo-Aryan language closely related to the Sinhalese language of Sri Lanka.

    What language? 2009

  • The Indo-Aryan languages are in fact a part of the Indo-European family (Wikipedia):

    What language? 2009

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