The Indian subcontinent is the place where Indo-Aryan languages are mainly spoken, also referred to as South Asia. ( Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bhutan, and the islands of Sri Lanka and the Maldives are the countries represented by this area)
This speaking area covers over 4.5 million square kilometers and includes a population of more than 1.06 billion. In 1991 there were close to 875 million speakers of Indo-Aryan languages. Indo-Aryan language truly has a growing influence.
The transmission of Indo-Aryan languages has a lengthy history, not only in the form of literary works and treatises on logical, philosophical, and ritual issues, as well as phonetic, phonological, and grammatical descriptions from the charts we can well confer, that Sanskrit is the mother language of several indo Aryan languages.
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The Indo-Aryan languages are divided into three stages: Old, Middle, and New (or Modern).
Under the old Indo-Aryan language, we have the Ved, Upanishads, Puran, dharmashastra which are part of it. Sanskrit was one of the major languages or we could say the route language that was used during that time. Ashtadhyayi is one of the major books that reveal the wordings of Sanskrit.
Middle Indo-Aryan language predominantly owes its origin to Buddhism and Jainism Sanskrit was considered to be the Sanskrit was the language of the Brahmins at the time, and only those who were familiar with the Vedas and Upanishads could understand it.
The modern Indo-Aryan language group includes all the languages that we see as of now like Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, etc are all part of this modern Indo-Aryan language. , Interesting facts about Indo-Aryan language and Sanskrit- , Indo-Aryan language was the first spoken language.
There are many books written for the porpoise to explain the topic of the Indo-Aryan language.
All the also Vedas were written in an OIA language, Sanskrit.