Linguistic history of the Indian subcontinent | Wikipedia audio article
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Linguistic history of the Indian subcontinent


00:00:23 1 Indo-Aryan languages
00:00:33 1.1 Proto-Indo-Aryan
00:00:57 1.2 Old Indo-Aryan
00:01:06 1.2.1 Vedic Sanskrit
00:02:03 1.2.2 Classical Sanskrit
00:02:51 1.3 Middle Indo-Aryan
00:03:00 1.3.1 Prakrits
00:04:34 1.3.1.1 Pali
00:05:13 1.3.2 Apabhraṃśa/Apasabda
00:06:24 1.4 Modern Indo-Aryan
00:06:33 1.4.1 Hindustani
00:08:41 2 Dravidian languages
00:10:43 2.1 History of Kannada
00:11:20 2.1.1 Stages of development
00:11:49 2.1.1.1 600 - 1200 AD
00:12:07 2.1.1.2 1400 - 1600 AD
00:12:50 2.1.2 Stone inscriptions
00:13:51 2.1.3 Copper plates and manuscripts
00:14:40 2.2 History of Tamil
00:15:52 2.2.1 Old Tamil
00:17:44 2.2.2 Middle Tamil
00:20:03 2.2.3 Modern Tamil
00:21:39 2.2.4 Literature
00:23:05 2.3 History of Telugu
00:23:13 2.3.1 Origins
00:23:59 2.3.2 Stages
00:24:18 2.3.2.1 575 –1100 CE
00:25:33 2.3.2.2 1100 CE – 1400 CE
00:26:04 2.3.2.3 1400–1900
00:27:22 2.3.2.4 1900 to date
00:28:38 2.3.3 Carnatic music
00:31:49 2.4 History of Malayalam
00:32:43 3 Languages of other families in India
00:32:54 3.1 Sino-Tibetan languages
00:33:26 3.2 Austroasiatic languages
00:34:10 3.3 Great Andamanese and Ongan languages
00:35:06 3.4 Isolates
00:35:26 4 Evolution of scripts
00:35:36 4.1 Indus script
00:36:53 4.2 Brāhmī script
00:38:54 4.3 Kharoṣṭhī script
00:40:48 4.4 Gupta script
00:41:15 4.5 Siddhaṃ script
00:43:15 4.6 Nagari script
00:43:28 5 See also



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The languages of India are divided into various language families, of which the Indo-Iranian and the Dravidian languages are the most widely spoken.  There are also many languages belonging to unrelated language families such as Sino-Tibetan, spoken by smaller groups. Linguistic records begin with the appearance of the Brāhmī script from about the 3rd century BCE.