2012/11/14 Anirudh Bhati anirudhsbh@gmail.com:
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by PH Matthews distinguishes Indic scripts from the Dravidian scripts, clearly specifying that Indic refers to the languages belonging to the Indo-Aryan Family (see page 175 of
This is one particular - and concise - dictionary. There are many other sources that don't make this distinction, for example the Unicode Consortium's documents about South Asian scripts: http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/
Unicode calls all South Asian scripts "Indic". This is the common term in discussions of computing in these languages, which this list is about.
Again: Let's not make up controversy.
-- Amir