Proto-Indo-Aryan language

Proto-Indo-Aryan
PIA, Proto-Indic
Reconstruction ofIndo-Aryan languages
Reconstructed
ancestors

Proto-Indo-Aryan (sometimes Proto-Indic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Indo-Aryan languages. It is intended to reconstruct the language of the Indo-Aryans, who had migrated into the Indian subcontinent. Being descended from Proto-Indo-Iranian (which in turn is descended from Proto-Indo-European), it has the characteristics of a satem language.