Sanskrit: Mother Of All Languages

Sanskrit – Mother of all Languages

Sanskrit is and old Indian Aryan language and it is in the family of Indo-European languages. Avestan, an Iranian languages, and Old Persian are closest to Sanskrit. The Indo-Aryan migration theory explains the similarities between Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages. It states that people migrated from the north-west to Indian subcontinent around early second millennium BCE and they are the original speaker of what became Sanskrit. The relationship between Baltic and Salvic language and Indo-Iranian tongues can be explained from this. The earliest document of Sanskrit are from mid to late second millennium BCE. It can be found in the Vedas, which was written in Vedic Sanskrit. The language was being

Collections of written texts of Sanskrit and literature shows a rich tradition of drama and poetry that includes technical, philosophical, scientific, and Hindu religious texts. In contemporary times, sacred rituals in form of hymns and mantras still uses Sanskrit as a ceremonial language continuously. In some traditional institutions in India, Sanskrit pronunciation is still being used. The transition of Vedic Sanskrit began during the mid-first millennium BCE. It transformed from first language to second language of knowledge and religion. This denote the beginning of Classical

This lays the basis for the comparative study of the Indo European languages. While conveying his third lecture, Sir William put forth the accompanying expression which stimulated the interest of numerous researchers lastly prompted the rise of comparative linguistics. After seeing similarities between Sanskrit and the Classical Languages of Europe, he declared:

"The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could not possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists; there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanskrit; and the old Persian might be added to the same family..." (Jones, Collected Works, Volume III :