#Indo-Iranian_language__Indo-Iranian  the branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups
  supertype:  #Indo-European_language__Indo-European__Indo-Hittite  the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
  subtype:  #Indic__Indo-Aryan  a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages
     subtype:  #Sanskrit__Sanskritic_language  an ancient language of India (the language of the Vedas and of Hinduism); an official language of India although it is now used only for religious purposes
        subtype:  #Sindhi  the Indic language of the Sindhi people
        subtype:  #Romany__Gypsy  the Indic language of the Gypsies
        subtype:  #Urdu  the official literary language of Pakistan, closely related to Hindi; widely used in India (mostly by Moslems); written in Arabic script
        subtype:  #Hindi  the most widely spoken of modern Indic vernaculars; spoken mostly in the north of India; along with English it is the official language of India; usually written in Devanagari script
           subtype:  #Hindoostani__Hindustani__Hindostani  a form of Hindi spoken around Delhi
        subtype:  #Bihari  the Indic language spoken in Bihar (and by some people in Pakistan and Bangladesh)
        subtype:  #Magadhan  a subfamily of Indic languages
           subtype:  #Asamiya__Assamese  the Magadhan language spoken by the Assamese people; closely related to Bengali
           subtype:  #Bengali  a Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and West Bengal
           subtype:  #Oriya  a Magadhan language that is spoken by the Oriya people and is the official language of the Indian state of Orissa
        subtype:  #Marathi__Mahratti  an Indic language; the state language of Maharashtra in west central India; written in the Devanagari script
        subtype:  #Gujarati__Gujerati  the Indic language spoken by the people of India who live in Gujarat in western India
        subtype:  #Punjabi__Panjabi  the Indic language spoken by most people in Punjab in northwestern India
        subtype:  #Sinhala__Sinhalese__Singhalese  the Indic language spoken by the people of Sri Lanka
     subtype:  #Dard__Dardic__Dardic_language  any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan
        subtype:  #Shina  a Dardic language spoken in northern Kashmir
        subtype:  #Khowar  a Dardic language spoken in northwestern Pakistan
        subtype:  #Kafiri  a Dardic language spoken by the Kafir people in northeastern Afghanistan
        subtype:  #Kashmiri  the official state language of Kashmir
     subtype:  #Nepali  the official state language of Nepal
  subtype:  #Iranian_language__Iranian  the modern Persian language spoken in Iran
     subtype:  #Zend__Avestan  an ancient Iranian language
     subtype:  #Gathic  an ancient Iranian language
     subtype:  #Persian__Farsi  the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms
     subtype:  #Dari_Persian__Dari  an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan
     subtype:  #Tajiki  an Iranian language spoken in Iran and Russia
     subtype:  #Kurdish  an Iranian language spoken in Turkey and Iran and Iraq and Syria and Russia
     subtype:  #Balochi__Baluchi  an Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Iran and Afghanistan and Russia and the Persian gulf
     subtype:  #Paxto__Pashto__Afghani__Afghan  an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan
     subtype:  #Ossete  a northeastern Iranian language spoken in Russia
     subtype:  #Scythian  the Iranian language spoken by the ancient Scythians

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