Indo-Aryan
Who brought this language family to India?
Aryans
Which ethnic group spoke the langauges of this family?
(Hint: its in the name)
Dravidians
हिंदी
Hindi
What descendant of Indo-Aryan were the Vedas written in?
Sanskrit
Where in India did these languages develop?
The South.
اردو
Urdu
This language, a natural dialect of Sanskrit was spoken casually.
Prakrta
List five descendants of Dravidian languages:
Tamil, Irula, Malayalam, Kodagu,Kota,Toda, Badaga, Kannada, Tulu,and Telugu.
संस्कृत
Sanskrit
Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Assamese, Sindhi, Gujrati, Odia, Marathi, and Punjabi.
This is the oldest Dravidian language, and is often thought to be the oldest language in the world.
Tamil
తెలుగు
Telugu
WHEN were Indo-Aryan languages brought to India?
Around the second millennium BCE
Where did these languages come from?
They were developed IN South India, NOT BROUGHT OVER.
தமிழ்
Tamil