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    • Sanskrit language | Origin, History, & Facts | Britannica

      Old Indo-Aryan

      • Sanskrit language, (from Sanskrit saṃskṛta, “adorned, cultivated, purified”), an Old Indo-Aryan language in which the most ancient documents are the Vedas, composed in what is called Vedic Sanskrit.
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      Sanskrit language | Origin, History, & Facts | Britannica

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  3. www.britannica.com › topic › Sanskrit-languageSanskrit language | Origin, History, & Facts | Britannica

    3 days ago · Sanskrit language, an Old Indo-Aryan language in which the most ancient documents are the Vedas, composed in what is called Vedic Sanskrit. In its grammatical structure, Sanskrit is similar to other early Indo-European languages such as Greek and Latin.

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Linguistic_history_of_IndiaLinguistic history of India - Wikipedia

    May 23, 2024 · Some modern scholars include all Middle Indo-Aryan languages under the rubric of "Prakrits", while others emphasise the independent development of these languages, often separated from the history of Sanskrit by wide divisions of caste, religion, and geography.

  5. www.thoughtco.com › where-does-language-come-from5 Theories on the Origins of Language - ThoughtCo

    1. The Bow-Wow Theory. According to this theory, language began when our ancestors started imitating the natural sounds around them. The first speech was onomatopoeic —marked by echoic words such as moo, meow, splash, cuckoo, and bang . So what's wrong with this theory?

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  7. www.britannica.com › art › Indian-literatureIndian literature | Ancient Texts, Epic Poems & Modern Works

    3 days ago · Indian literature, writings of the Indian subcontinent, produced there in a variety of vernacular languages, including Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Bengali, Bihari, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Lahnda, Siraiki, and Sindhi, among others, as well as in English.

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  8. timesofindia.indiatimes.com › city › mysuruSanskrit: Sanskrit is inspiration for all Indian languages ...

    2 days ago · Sanskrit is the patron and inspiration for all the languages of India, including Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam. It is the source of India's culture, heritage, and political thought.

  9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Brahmi_scriptBrahmi script - Wikipedia

    3 days ago · Ancient inscriptions have also been discovered in many North and Central Indian sites, occasionally in South India as well, that are in hybrid Sanskrit-Prakrit language called "Epigraphical Hybrid Sanskrit". These are dated by modern techniques to between the 1st and 4th centuries CE.

  10. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PaliPali - Wikipedia

    2 days ago · The Pali language's resemblance to Sanskrit is often exaggerated by comparing it to later Sanskrit compositions—which were written centuries after Sanskrit ceased to be a living language, and are influenced by developments in Middle Indic, including the direct borrowing of a portion of the Middle Indic lexicon; whereas, a good deal of later ...

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