Vedic Sanskrit
archaic language in the Vedas (2nd millennium BCE)
Key facts
- Native to
- South Asia
- Region
- Northwestern Indian subcontinent
- Era
- c. 1500 – 600 BCE
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Vedic Sanskrit
- Early forms
- Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-Iranian Proto-Indo-Aryan
- Iso 639 3
- vsn
- Glottolog
- vedi1234
via Wikipedia infobox
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Vedic Sanskrit, also simply referred as the Vedic language, is the earliest attested form of the Sanskrit and Prakrit languages: members 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 is orally preserved, predating the local advent of writing by several centuries.
Extensive ancient literature in the Vedic Sanskrit language has survived into the modern era, and this has been a major source of information for reconstructing Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Indo-Iranian history.