Indo-Iranian {Indo-Iranian language family}, Indo-European language in Iran and India, includes Iranian and Indic.
Iranian
Iranian includes Iranian or Farsi or Persian, Urdu, Kurdesh, Pushtu or Afgani, Ossetic, Baluchi, extinct Avestan, Khotanese, and Old Sakian.
Indic
Indic includes Apabhramsa, Hindustani, Bengali, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Bhili, Khandesi, Assamese, Sinhalese in Ceylon, Kashmiri, Nepali or Gurkhali, Romani or Gypsy, Gujarati, Oriya, Sindhi, Pahari in lower Himalayas, Marathi, Bihari, and extinct Old Indic or Sanskrit.
Hindustani includes Urdu and Hindi.
Hindi includes Western or standard Hindi and Eastern Hindi.
Marathi includes Konkani dialect.
Bihari includes Bhojpuri, Maithili, and Magahi.
scripts
India has 14 major languages. Urdu and Kashmiri use modified Arabic scripts. Hindi, Sanskrit, and Marathi use Devanagari script. Punjabi uses Gurmukhi script. Bengali uses Bengali script. Script symbols can be syllables.
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