indu aryan language

 The Harappans Civilization is known for  distinctive writing system. However, the Indus script remains undeciphered, and there is limited information available about the spoken language(s) of the Harappans.


Scholars have proposed several theories about the linguistic affiliations of the Harappans, but there is no clear consensus. Some scholars have suggested that the Harappan language(s) were Dravidian, while others have proposed that they were early Indo-Aryan languages.

However, linguistic evidence from the Indo-Aryan languages themselves, as well as from other related languages, suggests that the Indo-Aryan languages were introduced to the Indian subcontinent from outside. 



The Indo-Aryan languages are part of the larger Indo-European language family, which also includes the Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, and Romance languages, among others. The similarities between these languages suggest a common ancestral language, known as Proto-Indo-European (PIE), which is thought to have been spoken around 4000 BCE in the Pontic-Caspian steppe region of eastern Europe.


The earliest written records of Indo-Aryan languages in South Asia are in the form of the Rigveda, a collection of Sanskrit hymns composed between roughly 1500 BCE and 1200 BCE. The Rigveda contains references to the migration of Indo-Aryan-speaking people into the Indian subcontinent from a region to the northwest, which is believed to be the Pontic-Caspian steppe.


The archaeological evidence also supports the theory of an external origin for the Indo-Aryan languages. The Harappan Civilization declined around 1300 BCE, and the subsequent Painted Grey Ware culture, which is associated with the early Indo-Aryan-speaking people, appears in the archaeological record around 1000 BCE. This suggests a gap of several centuries between the decline of the Harappan Civilization and the emergence of the Indo-Aryan-speaking culture.

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