Linguistic Paradox and Diglossia: the emergence of Sanskrit and Sanskritic language in Ancient India
“We know that Middle Indian (Middle Indo-Aryan) makes its appearance in epigraphy prior to Sanskrit: this is the great linguistic paradox of India.” In these words Louis Renou (1956: 84) referred to a problem in Sanskrit studies for which so far no satisfactory solution had been found. I will here p...
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De Gruyter
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0001 |