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Is Pashto the only Eastern Iranian language?

They have strange letter in their keyboard like
څ،ځ،ډ،ټ،ږ،ړ،ې،ۍ،ڼ،چ other languages they don’t have it

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u/No-Topic4126 — 1 day ago
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The Linguistic Map of Taiwan Indigenous Peoples 臺灣原住民語言地圖

This map is part of the author's Austronesian language group map, aimed at showcasing the distribution of indigenous languages in Taiwan. Taiwan is an island in southeastern Asia and the first transit point for the Austronesian language family to advance towards the Pacific Ocean. The linguistic differentiation of Taiwan's indigenous peoples began earliest, and the differences in differentiation are unparalleled among the Austronesian language families.

After a hundred years of investigation and research by scholars, the Taiwanese language group can be divided into nine major language families, namely the Atayal language family, the Bunun language family, the Eastern Taiwanese language family, the Zou language family, the Paiwan language family, the Rukai language family, the Northwest Taiwanese language family, and the Western Plains language family. Many of these language families have less internal language differentiation, while others have a higher degree of internal differentiation. For hundreds of years, the indigenous languages of the plain areas have gradually been assimilated by the cultivated Han people, and language diversity has been gradually lost. Fortunately, there are many historical materials and survey results that allow us to explore the mysteries behind them. The language distribution in the Central Mountain Range region has not changed much, with a high degree of continuity and application in tribal societies. The Lanyu region in the southeast is home to the Tao tribe of the Malayo-Polynesian language family, which belongs to the Bassic language group and is closely related to the Bassic people of the Philippines.

u/Whole-Instance-978 — 10 days ago
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Could We Build a Digital Language-Evolution Map From Sanskrit to Modern Indo-Aryan Languages?

I have been thinking about a computational linguistics project that systematically studies the historical relationship between Sanskrit, the Prakrits, Apabhraṃśa, and modern Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Nepali, and others.

The goal would not be to claim that every Indian language directly descended from Sanskrit. Dravidian languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam belong to a different language family, although they have had extensive contact with and influence from Sanskrit.

The project could build a searchable platform where users enter a Sanskrit word and explore:

  • Related forms in Prakrit and Apabhraṃśa
  • Cognates and descendants across modern Indo-Aryan languages
  • Regular sound changes over time
  • Changes in pronunciation and meaning
  • Whether a modern word is inherited, borrowed directly from Sanskrit, or influenced by another language
  • Audio pronunciations, maps, timelines, and examples from texts

For example, instead of simply saying that a Hindi word “comes from Sanskrit,” the system could show the intermediate historical stages through which the word developed.

Such a resource could be useful for language learners, Sanskrit students, historians, translators, etymologists, and developers working on under-resourced Indian-language technologies. It could also support multilingual dictionaries, historical-text search, translation systems, speech tools, and the preservation of regional languages and dialects.

A broader version could also study language contact between Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Munda, Tibeto-Burman, Persian, Arabic, Portuguese, and English. This would present South Asian language history as both a family tree and a network of cultural exchange.

Does a project or database like this already exist in a comprehensive form? What Sanskrit dictionaries, Prakrit resources, linguistic datasets, or academic works would be the best starting points? I would especially appreciate feedback from people familiar with Sanskrit grammar, historical linguistics, Prakrit, or computational linguistics.

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u/Tiny_Valuable_9928 — 13 days ago