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original language of the Vedas
A
Sanskrit
B
Pali
C
Hindi
D
Punjabi
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Vedic Sanskrit was an ancient language of the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European language family. It is attested in the Vedas and related literature compiled over the period of the mid-2nd to mid-1st millennium BCE. It was orally preserved, predating the advent of writing by several centuries.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sanskrit is an ancient and classical language of India in which ever first book of the world Rigveda was compiled. The Vedas are dated by different scholars from 6500 B.C. to 1500 B.C. Sanskrit language must have evolved to its expressive capability prior to that.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sanskrit belongs to the Indo-European family of languages. It is one of the three earliest ancient documented languages that arose from a common root language now referred to as Proto-Indo-European language: Vedic Sanskrit ( c. 1500–500 BCE). Mycenaean Greek ( c. 1450 BCE) and Ancient Greek ( c. 750–400 BCE).

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