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10 : Scientific Contents in Prākrta Canons
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8. Indo-European
Synthetic India, Bangladesh, ( Samskrta, Pali, Prākrta, Inflectio- Srilanka, Pakistan, Persian, Greek, Latin, nal Afghanistan, Russia, English, French, German,
Europe, USA, Russian, Italian, Hindi,
Canada, Australia Bengali, etc. ) (c) American Zone 1. Red Indian
Incorpo- USA, Greenland, Languages ( about rating, Mexico, etc.
1000 languages) synthetic (d) Pacific Zone Malay-polynesian
Aggl. As above in 6 languages
Family of Indo-European Languages
The Linguistics is supposed to have developed through the studies of the languages of this family specially Samskrta. This family is, therefore, most important of all families because
(i) Geographically, its area covers larger part of the world.
(ii) It is spoken by the largest number of people
(iii) There is larger number of dialects and sub-dialects in this family.
(iv) This family has played a dominant role in the transformation, growth and progress of the world culture, civilization, literature and education.
Geographically, this family extends from Europe, British isles upto Indian sub-continent with few exceptional areas. Because of its manifold importance, various rames have been suggested for it ( such as Indo-Haitti, Indo-Germanic, IndoKeltic, Samskļtaic, Aryan, Wires, etc.) during the course of time. But the name Indo-European still persists with least botheration
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