Swaveda

Sources

The full bibliography.

Every paper, report, and primary text the site draws from. We don’t cite anything that isn’t listed here. The library grows over time; entries are tiered by how much weight a citation carries (Tier 1 = peer-reviewed top venue; Tier 3 = useful background, cite cautiously).

Tier 1

Peer-reviewed, top venue
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The Indo-Aryan Languages

George Cardona, Dhanesh Jain (eds.) · 2003 · Routledge

Reference work on the Indo-Aryan family. Cite, don't reproduce.

Linguistics
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The Indo-Aryan Languages

Colin P. Masica · 1991 · Cambridge University Press

Long the standard single-volume reference on Indo-Aryan languages. Older but still authoritative on the structural core.

Linguistics

Tier 2

Reputable; cite carefully
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Early Sources for South Asian Substrate Languages

Michael Witzel · 1999 · Mother Tongue (Special Issue, October 1999)

Witzel's much-cited argument for non-Indo-Aryan substrate languages preserved in Vedic. Influential, contested in places.

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