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A #thread about some #myths of #languages and #scripts (of #India): 🧵(I wrote in Kannada earlier)
Every language including #Sanskrit comes in spoken form first & later in written form. Most languages are dated by the earliest time when a written record for them is found. 1/17
#Samskrta can be considered an exception, where we have record of the spoken word before we see its written form. This is because the #Vedas were preserved in a speech form for millennia before being written down. In case of other languages, this is not so. 2/17
For ex: First written record of #Kannada date to 2-3rd C CE. But this does not prove Kannada did'nt exist prior to 2nd CE. It is better to inferwriting was introduced/adapted to Kannada then. In fact we see how the script used to write Prakrit in as adapted to write Kannada 3/17
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#prakrit One of the best books I have read in years. You can get it on @amazon luminosoa.org/site/books/10.…
This is the website of the author with a lot more information prakrit.info
It's hard to find information on this language.

If you do have anymore information than please let me know.
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Now, starting 2nd thread in the series of "#Sanskrit and #SilkRoute".

• Topic - Discovery of Sanskrit on Silk Route.

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Refer the map of #SilkRoute again. Do you see Takla Makan desert, North to Tibet ?

City of Kashgar at this desert separates the route in two parts - North & South.

See that Kucha town in the North route. Next tweets are related to Kucha. So, remember it.
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It was 1890 CE. India was under the British rule.

Hamilton Bower is a British army officer. He is sent to Kucha (China) on a secret mission in search of a murderer.

He goes to Kucha and takes help of a local person to guide him. Local guide takes him to an old place.
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#AncientIndianScripts
The #BrahmiScript is the earliest writing system developed in India after the #IndusScript. All modern #IndianScripts & most of the scripts found in Southeast/EastAsia are derived from Brahmi.
*Comparison of various abugidas descended from #BrahmiScript :-
The Sohgaura copper plate inscription is an #IndianCopperPlateInscription written in #Prakrit in the #BrahmiScript. It was discovered in Sohgaura, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
#AncientIndianScripts
Map showing routes of following #AncientIndianScripts of #India traveling to other parts of Asia.

#SiddhamScript
#KharosthiScript
#NepaliScript
#DevanagariScript
#GuptaScript
#KucheoScript
#TeluguScript
#KannadaScript
#TamilScript
Map reference: University of Pennsylvania.
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