Indo-Iranian language (original) (raw)
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups
Synonyms:
Indo-Iranian; Indo-Iranian language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Indo-Iranian language" is a kind of...):
Indo-European; Indo-European language; Indo-Hittite (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Indo-Iranian language"):
Indic; Indo-Aryan (a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages)
Iranian; Iranian language (the modern Persian language spoken in Iran)