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Indian vs Indic - What's the difference?

indian | indic |

As adjectives the difference between indian and indic

is that indian is of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies while Indic is relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages comprising Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages which are its descendants.

As proper nouns the difference between indian and indic

is that indian is any language spoken by Indians while Indic is a branch of the Indo-European family of languages comprising Sanskrit and its modern descendants such as Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi.

As a noun Indian

is a person from India.

indian

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.
  • (obsolete) Eastern; Oriental.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , volume 10:
    • The morrow next apprear'd with purple hayre / Yet dropping fresh out of the Indian fount, / And bringing light into the heavens fayre .
  • (dated) Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
  • (North America) Of foods: made with Indian corn or maize.
    • Indian''' bread; '''Indian meal
  • (chess) Designating any of various chess openings now characterised by black's attempt to control the board through knights and fianchettoed bishops rather than with a central pawn advance.

    • Synonyms

    * (of or or relating to India or its people) (l), (l) * (of or related to indigenous peoples of the Americas) (l), (l), (l) (chiefly Canadian), (l)

    Derived terms

    * Amerindian (American Indian) * Hindian (Asian Indian) * Indian clover * Indian elephant * Indian file * Indian giving * Indian Ocean * Indian red * Indian sign * Indian style * Indian sunburn * Indian tea * too many chiefs and not enough Indians *

    Related terms

    * Indo-

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person from India.
  • A member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, or Yupik).
  • *
  • (UK, colloquial) A meal at (or taken away from) an Indian restaurant.
    • We're going out tonight for an Indian .

    Synonyms

    * (person from India) Asian Indian * (indigenous person of the Americas) Amerindian, Native American, Red Indian * (indigenous person of the Americas) Native Canadian, First Nations person * See also

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (nonstandard) Any language spoken by Indians.

    • Statistics

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    indic

    English

    (wikipedia Indic)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (linguistics) A branch of the Indo-European family of languages comprising Sanskrit and its modern descendants such as Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi.

    • Synonyms

    * Indo-Aryan

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages comprising Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages which are its descendants
  • (by extension) Relating to other languages of India, which use Brahmic scripts.
  • Pertaining to India or its people, culture and languages; Indian.