Vedic Sanskrit

Vedic Sanskrit
Vedic Sanskrit
Native to	Present-day India, Afghanistan, Nepal and Pakistan
Region	Northwestern Indian subcontinent
Era	c. 1500 – 600 BCE
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Vedic Sanskrit; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vsn
Linguist List	vsn
	qnk Rigvedic
Glottolog	vedi1234
IETF	sa-vaidika
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Vedic Sanskrit, also simply referred as the Vedic language, is an ancient language of the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European language family. It is attested in the Vedas and related literature^[1] compiled over the period of the mid-2nd to mid-1st millennium BCE.^[2] It is orally preserved, predating the advent of writing by several centuries.^[3]^[4]

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. Vedic Sanskrit and its sister language, Avestan, are mutually intelligible with very careful listening, although multiple words remain unintelligible and have different pronunciations.^[5]^[6]

^ Burrow 2001, p. 43.
^ Witzel, Michael (2006). "Early Loanwords in Western Central Asia: Indicators of Substrate Populations, Migrations, and Trade Relations". In Mair, Victor H. (ed.). Contact And Exchange in the Ancient World. University of Hawaii Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-8248-2884-4.
^ Macdonell (1916), §1.2.
^ Reich, p. 122.
^ Baldi, Philip (1983). An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages. Southern Illinois University Press. pp. 51–52. ISBN 978-0-8093-1091-3.
^ Beckwith, Christopher I. (2009). Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Princeton University Press. pp. 363–368. ISBN 978-0-691-13589-2.

[FOOTNOTEBurrow200143-1] Burrow 2001, p. 43.

[Mair2006p160-2] Witzel, Michael (2006). "Early Loanwords in Western Central Asia: Indicators of Substrate Populations, Migrations, and Trade Relations". In Mair, Victor H. (ed.). Contact And Exchange in the Ancient World. University of Hawaii Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-8248-2884-4.

[3] Macdonell (1916), §1.2.

[4] Reich, p. 122.

[Baldi1983p51-5] Baldi, Philip (1983). An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages. Southern Illinois University Press. pp. 51–52. ISBN 978-0-8093-1091-3.

[beckwith366-6] Beckwith, Christopher I. (2009). Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Princeton University Press. pp. 363–368. ISBN 978-0-691-13589-2.

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