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The oldest surviving Sanskrit grammar is Panini's Astadhyayi ("Eight-Chapter Grammar"). It is essentially a prescriptive grammar, i.e., an authority that defines correct Sanskrit, although it contains descriptive parts, mostly to account for some Vedic forms that had become rare in Panini's ...
It is not related genetically to the Dravidian languages of South India, such as Tamil and Telegu. The oldest form of Sanskrit is so-called Vedic Sanskrit, the language of the four collections of liturgical texts known as the Vedas and of the early exegetical literature on these texts. The ...
“Sanskrit is the oldest language known to man. It is considered to be the very origin of language itself; that from which all languages have arisen or evolved. TheVedas, the universally accepted first scriptures of humanity, were written in the Sanskrit language.”–Matthew A. McIntosh here ...
Since the late 19th century, Sanskrit has been written mostly with the Devanāgarī alphabet. However it has also been written with all the other alphabets of India, except Gurmukhi and Tamil, and with other alphabets such asThaiandTibetan. TheBhaiksuki,Grantha,ShardaandSiddhamalphabets are used...
preserved, its oldest core dating back to as early as 1500 BCE.This qualifies Rigvedic Sanskrit as one of the oldest attestations of any Indo-Iranian language, and one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European languages, the family which includes English and most European languages...
The Gupta script that has been derived from Brahmi, became prevalent around the 4th to 8th centuries CE. The Bengali script and the Oriya script were used in Eastern India. In the south, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Grantha were the scripts used for Sanskrit....
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Sanskrit is one of the oldest languages of the Indian subcontinent. It belongs to the Indo-European group of languages along with Latin, Greek, German, Russian, English, etc. It is also the source for many languages which originated in India and which do not form part of the Dravidian ...