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George Cardona
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LOCATION: Urbana, IL, United States
Professor of linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Author of Studies in Indian Grammarians and others. Coeditor of Indo-European and Indo-Europeans.
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Indo-Iranian languages, group of languages constituting the easternmost major branch of the Indo-European family of languages; only the Tocharian languages are found farther east. Scholarly consensus holds that the Indo-Iranian languages include the Iranian and Indo-Aryan (Indic) language groups.…
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