The Indo-Aryan language family currently occupies a significant region of the Indian subcontinent, its member languages being spoken in the bulk of North India, as well as in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. The historical depth of the textual record and the geographical breadth of the Indo-Aryan linguistic area, the diversity of its languages (226 in all), and its many...

In 1858 William Ripley recalled an important nineteenth century assumption: In our school d&ys most of us were brought up to regard Asia as the mother of European people. We were told that an ideal race of men swarmed forth from the Himalayan highlands, disseminating culture right and left as they spread through the barbarous West. The primitive language, parent of all the varieties of speech--...

In Indo-Aryan languages, English loanwords containing the alveolar /t/ are always adapted as retroflex /ʈ/ [1]. It is argued that English alveolars share the cues of release burst with the retroflexes in Indo-Aryan languages [2]. However, no quantitative acoustic evidence is provided by [2] as to what acoustic cues of English alveolars are important for the speakers of Indo-Aryan languages to a...

A lexical knowledge base is an important component of any intelligent information processing system. The WordNet developed at the Cognitive Systems Laboratories at Princeton has served as a lexical reference system for natural language processing activities. The Indian language based activities at our institute mainly in text-to-speech synthesis and natural language generation from iconic input...

Hindu medicine correctly judged by him is a composite system. It consists of a Dravidian system on which was superimposed an Aryan system on which in its turn was superimposed a Buddhist system. The Dravidian system centres round Dhanvantari who does not figure in the vedic pantheon of the Aryan immigrants. He is one of the 14 jewels churned out of the milky ocean at the beginning of time when ...

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