Aryan languages may refer to the following:
- The Indo-Iranian languages as a whole
- Indo-Aryan languages, one of the two main branches of Indo-Iranian languages
- Iranian languages, the other main branch of the Indo-Iranian languages
- Aryan languages is also used by 19th century linguists to refer to the Indo-European languages as a whole, but the scholarly use of use of this term in this sense ended between about 1905 and 1910 and is obsolete in modern linguistic literature; however it continued to be used in this sense in the early decades of the 20th century by authors writing for the popular mass market such H.G. Wells
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“No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)