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  2. Linguistic history of India - Wikipedia

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    Austroasiatic languages include the Santal and Munda languages of eastern India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, and the Mon–Khmer languages spoken by the Khasi and Nicobarese in India and in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and southern China. The Austroasiatic languages arrived in east India around 4000-3500 ago from Southeast Asia. [99]

  3. Sanskrit - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit [c] is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. [19] [20] [21] It is the sacred language of Hinduism, the language of classical Hindu philosophy, and of historical texts of Buddhism and Jainism. Sanskrit arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the ...

  4. Classical languages of India - Wikipedia

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    The Indian classical languages, or the Shastriya Bhasha or the Semmozhi, is an umbrella term for the languages of India having high antiquity, and valuable, original and distinct literary heritage. [1] The Republic of India officially recognises six languages as the Classical languages of India. In 2004, the Government of India declared that ...

  5. Languages of India - Wikipedia

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    India portal. v. t. e. Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; [5] [6] both families together are sometimes known as Indic languages. [7] [8] [9] [a] Languages spoken by the ...

  6. Vedic Sanskrit - Wikipedia

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    Vedic Sanskrit, also simply referred as the Vedic language, is an ancient language of the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European language family. It is attested in the Vedas and related literature [1] compiled over the period of the mid- 2nd to mid-1st millennium BCE. [2] It is orally preserved, predating the advent of writing by several ...

  7. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    Guugu Yimidhirr. notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth 's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language in 1901. [200] [201] A list of 61 words recorded in 1770 by James Cook and Joseph Banks was the first written record of an Australian language. [202] c. 1891. Galela.

  8. Ancient scripts of the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    The Śāradā, Sarada or Sharada script is an abugida writing system of the Brahmic family of scripts. The script was widespread between the 8th and 12th centuries in the northwestern parts of Indian Subcontinent (in Kashmir and northern KPK), for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri. [18] [19] [20] Originally more widespread, its use became later ...

  9. Prakrit - Wikipedia

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    Prakrit. Prakrit ( / ˈprɑːkrɪt / [a]) is a group of vernacular Middle Indo-Aryan languages that were used in the Indian subcontinent from around the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE. [2] [3] The term Prakrit is usually applied to the middle period of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, excluding earlier inscriptions and Pali.