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Indo-Iranian Languages
Ancient Indic and Iranian languages are on the Ancient and Old Languages page.

Modern Indic Languages
(see note)

Modern Iranian Languages
(see note)


 
Assamese (this is not Annamese)
 
Bengali / Bangladeshi
 
Gujarati
 
Hindustani
 
Kurdish . [KAL] Kurdish Academy of Language New. . The Various Kurdish Alphabets . A Short Grammar of Kurmanji (Baran Rizgar) New. . [Kurdish Grammar (in Kurdish)] New. . The Kurdish Institute of Paris . Grammar Kurmanji or Kurdish Language (English) New.
. Grammaire kurde (French) New.
. Grammatica e vocabolario della lingua kurda (Italian) New. . Ferheng.org - Home of the Kurdish Dictionaries New.
. Ferheng.org - Mala ferhengên kurdî New. Kurdish and Turkish Dictionaries, Ferhengên kurdî û tirkî. . English-Kurdish Dictionary New.
. FERHENGÊ TIRKÎ-KIRMANCKÎ (ZAZAKÎ) New. (Turkish-Kurmanji)
. TÜRKÇE-KIRMANCCA (ZAZACA) SíZLÜK New. (Turkish-Kurmanji)
 
Nepalese / Nepali

Grammar, Lessons, asf.
. THDL: Nepali Language New.

. THDL: Learning Nepali New. . Nepal Research: web site on Nepal and Himalayan studies New.

Dictionaries, Vocabularies, Gloassaries, Lexicons, and Terminologies
. A Practical dictionary of modern Nepali. DSAL , U. Chicago New.

Online version of Ruth Laila Schmidt's 'A Practical dictionary of modern Nepali' . A comparative and etymological dictionary of the Nepali language DSAL New. Online version of R.L. Turner's 'A comparative and etymological dictionary of the Nepali language' . THDL: Cornell's Nepali-English & English-Nepali Glossary New.
. THDL : Thangmi - Nepali - English Dictionary New.
. Nepal Home Page Nepali Dictionary New.
. Nepali Dictionary - 420 words and counting New.
 
Oriya / Orissa
 
Persian (Farsi)
 
Punjabi / Panjabi
 
Romany / Romani / Gypsy
Yes, the language of the Gypsies, who originally migrated to Europe from India in the 1400's.   Which means that the language is ultimately related to Sanskrit.

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Note on Indic languages

Firstly, although the languages of India include languages from at least four major language families, the Indic languages found here, on this page, form part of the Indic (or Indo-Aryan) sub-family of the Indo-European language family. That's because this is a linguistically oriented web site, not a political one.

The other major language families represented in India are the Dravidian, the Austro-Asiatic, and the Sino-Tibetan.

Secondly, there are dozens (yes, dozens) of Indic languages (again, Indo-European languages of the Indo-Aryan branch) spoken natively in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and even in Europe. The Gleaner's Language Links Project, however, lists only those languages for which instructional information is available on the internet, and this leads to the fact that the Indic languages included here are only some of the most well known Indic languages.


 
Note on "Iranian" languages

It is important to note explicitly, that, as defined here, the designation "Iranian" has almost nothing to do with the country of "Iran".

This webpage does not present a list of the languages of Iran (though some of the "Iranian" languages are obviously from Iran), but rather a list of the Indo-European languages that are categorized, by historical linguists, as "Iranian", regardless of what country (or countries) that they are spoken in.

Roughly speaking, this includes those Indo-European languages that are most closely related to the Persian language, which is one of the most important languages in world history, and which is also the official language of Iran -- hence the designation "Iranian" for all of these languages, even though most such "Iranian" languages are not native to Iran.

In this context, then, the term, "Iranian", has only a linguistic meaning, and makes no statement about the political or cultural status of any language, or any people, in any country.

There are other language families, besides the Indo-European, represented in Iran: most notably the Altaic, and the Afro-Asiatic. But this website lists languages either by linguistic category or geographically by continent -- not by country, not by political affiliation, not by ethnic affiliation, nor by religious use.

For more details, see the following general overview of "Iranian" languages, from a specialist in Iranian languages: Iranian Language Family