--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Classical Sanskrit is an artificially codified literary language.
The Middle and Modern Indo-Aryan languages do not derive directly
from it but from vernacular varieties of Old Indo-Aryan, which were
not identical with Sanskrit in all respects. Vedic is not a
monolithic language but a temporally stratified collection (and
mixture) of different dialects -- accidentally surviving members of a
larger dialectal network from which Middle Indo-Aryan evolved.
Piotr, are the following two categories mentioned different: 1) the
dialects which resulted in Vedic and 2) the vernacular varieties of
Old Indo-Aryan? Would both include Proto-Munda and Proto-Dravidian?