Indo-Aryan Languages

Part I: General Articles 1. General Introduction George Cardona and Dhanesh K. Jain 2. The Sociolinguistics of the Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian Subcontinent Dhanesh K. Jain 3. Alphabets and Writing Systems (Historical and Descriptive) Richard Salomon Part II: Language Articles A: Major Languages 1. Sanskrit (including Vedic) George Cardona 2. Early Middle Indo-Aryan (Ashoka and Pali) Thomas Oberlies 3. Later Middle Indo-Aryan: Prakrits and Apabhramsa Vit Bubenik 4. Hindi Michael Shapiro 5. Urdu Ruth Laila Schmidt 6. Bangla (Bengali) Probal Dasgupta B: Other Languages 7. Asamiya (Assamese) G. C. Goswami and Jyotiprakash Tamuli 8. Oriya Tapas S. Ray Languages of Bihar 9. Maithili Ramawtar Yadav 10. Magahi Sheela Verma 11. Bhojpuri Manindra K. Verma 12. Panjabi Christopher Shackle 13. Nepali Theodore Riccardi 14. Sindhi Lachmann M. Khubchandani 15. Gujarati George Cardona and Babubhai K. Suthar 16. Marathi Rajeshwari Pandharipande 17. Konkani Rocky Miranda 18. Sinhala James W. Gair 19. Dardic Languages Elena Bashir 20. Kashmiri Omkar N. Koul