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A History ofSanskrit,

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SANSKRIT

Sanskrit is an Indo-Aryan language and also the primary religious language used in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.

Sanskrit is included in the 22 scheduled languages of India and is also the official language of Ut-tarkhand.

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SANSKRIT

Sanskrit as a language holds an important place alongside other founding languages such as Greek and Latin.

It holds an important place in India, similar to that of Latin and Greek in Europe.

Sanskrit has had a significant influence on most modern languages of the Indian subcontinent, pri-marily in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

The pre-classical form of Sanskrit is known as Vedic Sanskrit, with the language of the Rigveda being the oldest and most archaic dating back to as early as 1500 BCE.

Rigvedic Sanskrit is there fore documented as one of the oldest Indo-Iranian languages, and also one of the earliest members of the Indo-European lan-guage family, the family which includes English and most European languages.


SANSKRIT

Sanskrit even today is widely used during Hindu ceremonial rituals and Buddhist practices in the form of hymns and mantras. Spoken Sanskrit is still used in a few traditional institutions in India and several attempts are being made for its re-vival.

The oldest surviving Sanskrit grammar is in Panini's "Eight-Chapter Grammar" which is essentially an authority defining correct Sanskrit.

Knowledge of Sanskrit marked the fact that a person belonged to a certain social class. Sanskrit then, was mainly taught to members of higher castes, through close analysis of Sanskrit grammar-ians such as Panini.


LATIN

Latin is an Italic language which originated in the Italian peninsula, and was originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome located along the Medi-terranean Sea.

Similar to most European languages, Latin is a de-scendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European lan-guage. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the church speak it fluently, and many schools and universi-ties continue to teach it.


LATIN

Latin is used even now in the creation of new words in modern languages, including English. Latin vocabulary is used in science, academia, and law.

A standard, more literate form gained popularity through speeches by the educated during the later stages in the Roman Republic which is now referred to as Classical Latin. Classical Latin however slowly changed with the Decline of the Roman Empire, as education and wealth became ever scarcer. In terms of vocabulary, Latin has a tendency to preserve the original forms of many Indo-European roots. Languages such as Sanskrit, however, tend to be more conservative with regards to grammar.


GREEK

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. It holds the distinc-tion for being the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records.

Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history.


GREEK

Greek holds an important place in

the history of Europe and Christianity. It was also the language in which many of the foundational texts of Western philosophy, such as the Platonic dialogues and the works of Aristotle, were com-posed. The New Testament of the Christian Bible was also written in Greek.


GREEK

Greek was widely spoken once upon a time in the Mediterranean world. In its modern form, Greek is the official language of Greece and Cyprus and is included in the 23 official languages of the Euro-pean Union. The language today is spoken by at least 13 million people in Greece, Cyprus and other diaspora communities around the world.


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Who was Panini?

What is an Indo-Aryan language?

What is an Italic language?

What is the difference between Latium and An-cient Rome?

What is the Indo-European family of languages?


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