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Sanskrit
An Indo-Aryan literary language with Vedic, grammatical and later classical traditions.
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At a glance
Evidence and writing
- Evidence / period
- Vedic and later textual traditions
- Region
- South Asia
- Writing system
- Brahmi-derived scripts and earlier oral transmission
- Site status
- Open site
Dates describe surviving written evidence or textual traditions, not necessarily when a spoken language began or ended. Map points indicate a representative centre of evidence, not a language boundary.