Langenesis

Indo-European family

Proto-Nuristani

c. 1,800 BCE – 500 BCE Reconstructed

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

See Proto-Nuristani on the interactive map

Ancestor of the Nuristani languages of northeastern Afghanistan, treated as a third Indo-Iranian branch beside Indo-Aryan and Iranian (following Morgenstierne and Strand). Dating very uncertain.

Lineage

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

Descendants 1

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Proto-Indo-Iranian.

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