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Thirty #Tamili and #Prakrit #scripts reveal 2,000-year-old #India-#Egypt trade. Among the inscriptions found in six rock-cut tombs, 20 are in Tamili and the remaining 10 are in #Sanskrit and Prakrit, implying that people from several regions of the Indian subcontinent were visiting Egypt.
https://www.deccanherald.com/india/thirty-tamili-and-prakrit-scripts-reveal-2000-year-old-india-egypt-trade-3895134 #archaeology #archeology #egyptology #history #epigraphy #ValleyOfTheKings
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Audio Etymologies of the Day
"Sang" comes from Proto-Indo-European *songʷʰ-o-, like this (listen):
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/sang-from-PIE-songwh.wav*songʷʰ-o- is derived from *sengʷʰ-e- "sing":
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-songwh-from-PIE-sengwh.wav*sengʷʰ-e- developed into Prakrit 𑀲𑀁𑀖𑀇 sanghai “to narrate”:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-sengwh-to-Prakrit-saMghai.wav(Prakrit languages were vernaculars in India, distinct from Sanskrit, from c. 3rd century BCE to 8th century CE.)
@linguistics #etymology #englishlanguage
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#TheEdict
#TMKrishna
#Prakrit
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RT @GhoshAmitav
First instalment of @tmkrishna's Edict Project. Musical renderings of the Edicts in which the great Buddhist philosopher-emperor Ashoka expressed his vision of a humane society. Sung in the original Prakrit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwffR1MoISU
https://twitter.com/GhoshAmitav/status/1317087472468320262