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The Indo-Aryan languages form a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian languages, thus belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. The term Indic refers to the same group without the negative connotations of "Aryan". Note that in opposition to the generic adjective Indian, Indic is the term used in the context of Indo-European linguistics, and is not strictly a geographical term, so that non-Indo-European languages spoken in India are not included in the term, while the Mitanni, on the other hand, probably were speakers of an Indic language without ever having settled on the Indian subcontinent.
SIL in a 2005 estimate counts a total of 209 varieties, the largest in terms of native speakers being Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu, ca. 540 million), Bengali (ca. 200 million), Punjabi (ca. 100 million), Marathi (ca. 70 million), Gujarati (ca. 45 million), Oriya (ca. 30 million) and Sindhi (ca. 20 million), with a total number of native speakers of more than 900 million.
History
The earliest attestations of the group are in Vedic Sanskrit, the language used in the ancient preserved texts of India, the foundational canon of Hinduism known as the Vedas. The language of the Mitanni is of similar age, but is only attested fragmentarily. More on [ Indo-Aryan languages ]
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Aksharamala Forums - Discussion on various aspects of Indic language programming and development.
Computing in Indian Languages using Java - Unicode and ISCII-based Java Products for Indian language computing. Suite offers conversion utilities from Unicode to non-Unicode Indic fonts and vice versa.
Indian Scripts Input System - Unicode compliant freely downloadable software keyboard input methodologies covering most Indian scripts.
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Indix - Indian Language Computing Project - Research project related to Indian languages in computing. Contains details of the work, screen shots and a download of the unicode compatible Raghu font.
ISCII and ISCLAP - The Indian Script Code for Information Interchange (ISCII) and Indian Script Code for Language Paging (ISCLAP) are two standards supported by the Indian Government. Includes a character set table and a description of the two encoding systems.
ISCII white paper - A description of the Indian Script Code for Information Interchange) as detailed in the IS:13194:1991 standard document. Authored by Shashank Bhatt.
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Mozdev.org: Padma - A technology for transforming text written in Indic languages between various public and proprietary formats.
Standardization and Implementations of Thai Language - Details on Thai encoding, input and output mechanisms, linguistics and standards. PDF document, requires Acrobat Reader.
The Indic Computing Project - Involves preparation of a handbook for computing in Indian languages, with languages specific issues. Also contains mailing lists for Indic computing users, developers, standards and CVS logs.
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