Austro-asiatic roots of Hindi
Hindi one of the Indo-Aryan languages a subbranch of Indo-European spoken by 74% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 23% of Indians.Other languages spoken in India belong to the Austroasiatic, and a few minor language families and isolates.
The north Indian languages from the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family evolved from Old Indo-Aryan by way of the Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit languages and Apabhramsa of the Middle Ages. There is no consensus for a specific time where the modern north Indian languages such as Hindustani, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi,Punjabi, Rajasthani, Sindhi and Oriya emerged, but AD 1000 is commonly accepted.Each language had different influences.
