A brief overview of Indian languages

According to modern history, the Proto-Indo-European language, which flourished between 4500 and 2000 BC, is the mother of all Indo-European families as we know today, Proto-Indo-European is the source of about 50% of the world's spoken languages. Sanskrit is also a Proto-Indo-European language.

When it comes to India, Sanskrit is the source language for the vast majority of the languages spoken in India today. Well not just in India but Sanskrit shares common routes with some European languages such as Lithuania. For example- 

* Fire in English is Agni in Sanskrit and Ugnis in Lithuania.

* God in English is Deva in Sanskrit and Dievas in Lithuania.

*Day in English is Dina in Sanskrit and Diena in Lithuania etc.

In addition to linguistic parallels, Lithuania shares many cultural fronts with ancient Vedic culture, the pagan rituals of Lithuania called remover or it derives from its root word rom which means peace and calmness it has interesting connections with the Vedic culture on fire-worship, worship of the elements of nature, and so on.

Let's take a look at how all Indian languages originated from Sanskrit.

Vedic Sanskrit and Tamil were the first two languages to evolve from proto-Indo-European. The classical Sanskrit, which is more widely used as a spoken language in ancient India, originated from Vedic Sanskrit. Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu evolved from both classical Sanskrit and Tamil, and classical Sanskrit evolved a wide variety of languages called Prakrits, which include:

1. Hindi

2. Bengali

3. Oriya 

4. Bihari 

5. Gujarati 

6. Marathi 

7. Rajasthani 

8. Sindhi 

9. Punjabi 

10. Sinhali

11. Assamese 

12. Konkani 

13. Maithili etc.