Dardic group of language belongs to which language family ?

The Dardic group of languages belongs to the Indo-European language family. Specifically, they are classified as a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch [1]. While early scholars like George Grierson proposed Dardic as an independent family within Indo-Iranian, modern linguistic scholarship, including the work of Georg Morgenstierne, has determined that Dardic languages are unmistakably Indo-Aryan in character [1]. They are spoken primarily in northern Pakistan, northwestern India (notably Kashmiri), and northeastern Afghanistan [1]. Within the Indian context, the Indo-European family (often referred to as the Aryan family) is the largest linguistic group, accounting for approximately 73-74% of the population. Dardic languages like Kashmiri have been significantly influenced by Sanskrit and are considered an offshoot of the Indo-Aryan languages of the post-Vedic period.

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1. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dardic_languages