Sanskrit is a member of the Indo-Iranian sub-family of the Indo-European family of languages. Its closest ancient relatives are the Iranian languages Old Persian and Avestan. In order to explain the common features shared by Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages, many scholars have propose...
History While some of the languages in India are closely related to Sanskrit and actually derived most of their words from it, the closest to Tamil is Malayalam, a Tamil dialect that completely evolved into a separate language. Today, there are still 22Tamildialects in South Asia, Southeast As...
bradshaw of the futurehas apostcalled “The ten coolest languages”; obviously any such top-ten list is to some extent subjective and arbitrary, and this one tails off at the end (“Sanskrit has a cool compounding system,”“Telugu: Because it has such a beautiful script”), but the ones...
The oldest form ofSanskritis Vedic Sanskrit that dates back to the 2nd millennium BCE. Known as 'the mother of all languages,' Sanskrit is the dominant classical language of the Indian subcontinent and one of the 22 official languages of India. It is also the liturgical language of Hinduism,...
who falls for the laughably formal Leon but becomes disillusioned by him and decides she and Vasya should get married. They’re too young to do so immediately, but they decide to take a honeymoon trip anyway, in the course of which Iva is abducted by Leon, who turns out to be the de...
Languages that have contributed words to English include Latin, Greek, French, German, Arabic, Hindi (from India), Italian, Malay, Dutch, Farsi (from Iran and Afghanistan), Nahuatl (the Aztec language), Sanskrit (from ancient India), Portuguese, Spanish, Tupi (from South America) and Ewe (...
There is a clear-cut difference between Vedic and post-Vedic Sanskrit in that the former has certain formations that the latter has eliminated. The grammarian Pāṇini (c. 5th–6th century bce) appropriately distinguishes between usage proper to the language of sacred texts (chandas, locative ...
Like other Indo-Aryan languages, Gujarati is derived fromSanskritthroughPrakrit, a large group of ancient Indic languages, andApabhramsha, transitional dialects spoken in India between the 6th-13th centuries AD. The first grammar of a precursor of Gujarati was written in the 12th century. The fir...
Thehigh formis used when talking about members of the royal family, high ranking Buddhist clergy, and persons of high social status. The high form contains many loanwords fromSanskritand fromKhmer. Thelow formis used in everyday situations and when talking about persons other than those listed...
Lakshadweep, the group of 36 islands is known for its exotic and sun-kissed beaches and lush green landscape. The name Lakshadweep in Malayalam and Sanskrit means 'a hundred thousand islands'. India's smallest Union Territory Lakshadweep is an archipelago consisting of 36 islands with an area...