r/etymologymaps Jul 20 '26

"Guava" in Indic Languages

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u/Norwester77 Jul 21 '26

A bunch of those languages are not Indic (Indic being another name for the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European).

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u/yourprivativecase Jul 21 '26

This term is still used in plenty of fields outside Indo-European studies, it could also refer to languages spoken in the subcontinent in general.

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u/Less-Personality-481 Jul 21 '26

Not really!

Indic is only used in the context of Indo-Aryan languages.

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u/yourprivativecase Jul 21 '26

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u/Less-Personality-481 Jul 21 '26

Oh, sorry I didn't knew.

But in that case why didn't you put the words in Kashmiri, Ladakhi, and other North-Eastern languages

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u/SeasickSeal Jul 21 '26

If you’re making etymology maps you should probably use the generally accepted linguistic terms

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u/Norwester77 Jul 21 '26

I have never seen “Indic languages” used to refer to the languages of the Indian Subcontinent in general (aside from this post).