Open AccessEarly Indian Languages: An Evolution Perspective
Author(s) -
Sourav Mallick
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
asian review of social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2249-6319
DOI - 10.51983/arss-2018.7.2.1432
Subject(s) - sanskrit , aryan race , linguistics , ergative case , perspective (graphical) , history , philosophy , mathematics , computer science , ancient history , artificial intelligence , combinatorics , transitive relation
Sound, signs or signals, gestures, urge of transferring higher levels of thinking and feelings and also exchange of ideas were the beginning of the formulation of languages despite the controversies in the origin of languages through the Speculative Theory, Signaling Theory, Mother tongue Hypothesis and so on. Civilization and progress have paved the origin of languages for communication and vice versa. Whatever been the reason and whenever been the time of development of language in this subcontinent or in the Earth, India always possesses a rich linguistic heritage. The Proto-Indo-Aryan language is the prime language of India followed by Old Indo-Aryan covering Vedic-Sanskrit, Classical-Sanskrit; Middle Indo-Aryans of Prakrit, Pali and Modern Indo-Aryan language. This analysis is an attempt to point out the origin of Vedic, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali and Dravidian languages and also these roles in the formulation of other languages and enrichment of in this subcontinent.