Overview of The Indic Languages

Undergraduate / Graduate

A historical and comparative view of the Indic languages: (a) Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Indo-Iranian, (b) Proto-Indo-Iranian to Proto-Indic, (c) Old Indic (Vedic and Sanskrit), (d) Middle Indic (Pali, Ardhamagadhi, Prakrit, and Apabhramsha), and (c) New Indic (focusing on the earlier stages of Gujarati/Rajasthani and Avadhi/Braj/Hindi).