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points. This family is characterised by inflectional form with suffixing nature.
This family is sub-divided into two sub-groups ( one with S and the other with K oriented) consisting of ten language families as below: (a) Kentum Sub-group (K) (b) Satam Sub-group (S) 1. Keltic
1. Armenian 2. Germanic
2. Volt-slavic 3. Latin
3. Albanian 4. Greek
4. Baltic 5. Tokhari
5. Indo-Iranian or Aryan Almost all classical Indian languages like Pāli, Prākta and Samskrta belong to the Indo-Aryan 'sub-group of IndoEuropean family of Euresian zone. This means that these three languages seem to be Aryan languages.
There has been a large number of varied opinions among the scholars of East and West about the original place of Aryans, However, it is now generally agreed that the Aryans originally belong to the dry south-eastern plateau of Ural mountains in Russia. A good part of them moved towards the south-east to Iran and Asian countries full of green lands and prosperity while the other section moved towards the west-now called Europe. Linguistically, Grearson opines that they moved to these places in at least two groups. There was natural exchange between the languages of the immigrants and the original dwellers of the land and a conceded language gradually developed. This might have happened during 2400-2000 B. C. in Indo-Iranian case. They might have settled in India by about 1500 B. C. This could be said to be the period of start of the history of Indo-Aryan languages.
The scholars opine that this group has now three distinct but closely related sub-divisions - (1) Iranian, (ii) Dravidian and (iii) Indian. The Dravidian language belong to current Kashmir and Afghanistan. Out of these, the Darad languages form the
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