The Germanic branch developed into languages including German, Dutch and English. And the Indo-Iranian branch resulted in languages like Hindi, Bengali, Persian and Kurdish.

The Indo-Aryan or Indic languages are the dominant language family of the northern Indian subcontinent. They constitute a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, itself a branch of the Indo-European ...

3. Hindi. Number of Total Speakers: 609.5 million Hindi is the third most-spoken language in the world in 2024. It belongs to the Indo-Iranian language family.

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery.

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Rather, the Indo-Iranian languages spread with a later push of pastoralist groups from the South Ural Mountains during the Middle to Late Bronze Age. Prior to entering South Asia, ...

Peoples speaking languages of the Indo-Iranian subgroup of the Indo-European language family probably entered Iran from the northeast early in the second millennium BCE. The indigenous inhabitants ...

The two languages are part of the Indo-Iranian language family, which split into two branches around 4,000 to 5,000 years ago; the Iranian branch, to which Avestan belonged, and the Indo-Aryan, to ...

(3) Contacts with Indo-Iranian languages, which led to foreign vocabulary entering the Uralic languages. Languages formerly spoken in the area were assimilated.

Pakistan has around 73 and 76 actively spoken languages. So many districts don’t speak the same language. However, the most spoken languages are in the Indo-Iranian language group, including ...