Langenesis

Indo-European family

Proto-Indo-Aryan

c. 1,800 BCE – 1,500 BCE Reconstructed

Proto-Indo-Aryan (c. 1,800 BCE – 1,500 BCE) is a reconstructed Indo-European language. It has 33 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → Proto-Indo-Aryan.

See Proto-Indo-Aryan on the interactive map

Reconstructed ancestor of the Indo-Aryan languages. Traces of an early Indo-Aryan superstrate appear in the Mitanni documents of northern Syria (c. 1400 BCE).

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,800 BCE
  3. Proto-Indo-Aryanc. 1,800 BCE – 1,500 BCE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Proto-Indo-Iranian.

Sources