adj.
- Of or relating to India or its peoples or cultures.
- Of or relating to the branch of the Indo-European language family comprising Sanskrit, the Prakrits, and their modern descendants, such as Bengali, Hindi-Urdu, and Punjabi.
The Indic branch of Indo-European. Also called Indo-Aryan.
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