--- Jacques Huynen <jhuynen@...> skrev:

> I think it is Vedic Sanskrit that is called Early
> Indo-Aryan while Classical post Panini Sankrit is
> posterior to prakrits - among which Pâli - of which
> it
> is a systematisation.
>
> J.Huynen

It is true that the most important works in Classical
Sanskrit are written later than the most important
works in Pali. Nevertheless, Classical Sanskrit is a
more archaic language than Pali regarding both
phonetics and grammar, and it is therefore classified
as Early Indo-Aryan.

In the same way, Latin is classified as an older
language than Italian, in spite of the fact that late
Latin was (and is) written later than early Italian.

Gunnar