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The following criteria were set during the time Sanskrit was given the classical language status by the government of India: [3] I. High antiquity of its early texts/recorded history over a period of 1500-2000 years. II. A body of ancient literature/texts, which is considered a valuable heritage by generations of speakers. III.
Odia (formerly spelled Oriya) [208] is the only modern language officially recognized as a classical language from the Indo-Aryan group. Odia is primarily spoken and has official language status in the Indian state of Odisha and has over 40 million speakers. It was declared as a classical language of India in 2014.
Tamil is written in a non-Latin script. Tamil text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919 standard. Tamil[ b ] (தமிழ், Tamiḻ, pronounced [t̪amiɻ] ⓘ) is a classical Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia.
The Indus script is the short strings of symbols associated with the Harappan civilization of ancient India (most of the Indus sites are distributed in present-day Pakistan and northwest India) used between 2600 and 1900 BCE, which evolved from an early Indus script attested from around 3500–3300 BCE.
Rigveda 10.71.1–4 Translated by Roger Woodard The Vedic Sanskrit found in the Ṛg-veda is distinctly more archaic than other Vedic texts, and in many respects, the Rigvedic language is notably more similar to those found in the archaic texts of Old Avestan Zoroastrian Gathas and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. According to Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton – Indologists known for their ...
Classical Language in India. "Classical Language in India" is an official status within the Republic of India, awarded by the Government of India. It is without direct relation to the usual definition of "classical language" (viz., a specific classical register within a larger literary tradition), for which see Category:Classical languages .
It is one of the few languages that has primary official status in more than one Indian state, alongside Hindi and Bengali. [9] Telugu is one of the languages designated as a classical language by the Government of India. It is the 14th most spoken native language in the world. [10]
Odia is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Aryan language family. It descends from Odra Prakrit which itself evolved from Magadhi Prakrit. [23] The latter was spoken in east India over 1,500 years ago, and is the primary language used in early Jain and Buddhist texts. [24] Odia appears to have had relatively little influence ...