#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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