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The language of the original Aryans. [Written also Arian.]

To make Aryan (a language, or in language). K. Johnston.

Pert. to the Indo-Aryans, or designating, or of, the Aryan languages of India.

Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic. J. Prichard.

See Aryan.

acing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root.

Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion.

A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.

uage of Hindostan; the name given by Europeans to the most generally spoken of the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hindi with the addition of Persian and Arabic words.

Aryan; -- applied to the languages of India and Europe which are derived from the prehistoric Aryan language; also, pertaining to the people or nations who speak these languages; as, the Indo- European or Aryan family. The common origin of the Indo-European nations. Tylor.

Same as Aryan, and Indo-European.

A native of Iran; also, the Iranian or Persian language, a division of the Aryan family of languages.

spoken by the Lapps in Lapland. It is related to the Finnish and Hungarian, and is not an Aryan language.

sable part of the machinery of state. Macaulay. The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan languages. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

A member of the Teutonic branch of the Indo-European, or Aryan, family.

ges. Teutonic languages, a group of languages forming a division of the Indo-European, or Aryan, family, and embracing the High German, Low German, Gothic, and Scandinavian dialects and languages. -- Teutonic order, a military religious order of knights, established toward the close of the twelfth century, in imitatio…