INDIAN HISTORY

HISTORY

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The earliest language of the Aryans. was
A
Persian
B
Sanskrit
C
Pali
D
Prakrit
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The answer is Sanskrit. The language of the Aryans of India was Sanskrit, an Indo-Aryan language. Old Indo-Aryan includes different dialects and linguistic states that are referred to in common as Sanskrit.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sanskrit is a language which belongs to the Indo-Aryan group and is the root of many, but not all Indian languages. “If you know Sanskrit, you can easily understand many Indian languages such as Hindi, Bengali and Marathi, ‘’ says Vaishnav, a grade 11 student at Laxman Public School.

Detailed explanation-3: -These Aryans were said to have introduced key elements of Indian culture such as the Sanskrit language – which gave rise to the Indo-Aryan branch of languages spoken all across north, west and east India today – as well as the Vedas, the foundational texts of Hinduism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tamil is older than Sanskrit and there is record of ‘Tamil Sangam’ dating back 4, 500 years, he said.

Detailed explanation-5: -The founding language of the family from which Sanskrit is from is called Proto-Indo-European. Its daughter is a language called Proto-Indo-Iranian, so called because it is the origin of the languages of North India and Iran (linguists aren’t that good with catchy language names).

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