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The Indo-Aryan Languages

The Indo-Aryan Languages, edited by George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain, published by Routledge in 2003, is an edited scholarly volume surveying the Indo-Aryan language family, Sanskrit's descendants including Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati and dozens more, with each language's chapter written by a specialist in that particular language. Its strength is that specialist authorship per language, rather than one scholar generalizing across a family too large for any single expert to cover with equal depth. Its limit is exactly that division, the volume's quality and depth vary somewhat by chapter and contributor, so a claim about a specific language within the family should be traced to that language's own chapter and its author's particular scholarly standing rather than cited to the edited volume as an undifferentiated whole.

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Author
George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain (eds.)
Publisher
Routledge
Publication Year
2003
URL
https://www.routledge.com/The-Indo-Aryan-Languages/Cardona-Jain/p/book/9780415772945
Source Type
Edited volume
Assessment
Reliability Tier
1
The Indo-Aryan Languages, edited by George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain and published by Routledge in 2003, is an edited scholarly volume with each chapter written by a specialist in that language, treated at the top tier.
Notes
Edited scholarly volume on the Indo-Aryan language family.
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Punjabis, Cultures

This source names Punjabis directly: "The Indo-Aryan Languages, edited by George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain, published by Routledge in 2003, is an edited scholarly volume surveying the Indo-Aryan language family, Sanskrit's descendants..."

Source The Indo-Aryan LanguagesGeorge Cardona and Dhanesh Jain (eds.)
Claims Backed By This Source (23 claims)

This source backs 23 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
  • Languages, 7 claims: 3 well-attested, 4 general references.
  • Articles, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.
  • Language Families, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
  • Religions, 2 claims: 2 holds.
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