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When was the first Indian treatise written that said the Earth revolved around the Sun?
In the 6th century, nearly a thousand years before Copernicus.
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Topic > Language (8)
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  • Ancient Indic (1) : Ancient languages of the Indo-European language family
  • Modern Indic (2) : Modern Indian vernaculars descended from Sanskrit-related languages
  • Dravidian : Modern Indian vernaculars and ancient languages of the Dravidian family, spoken today in South India
  • Other : Miscellaneous languages

Sanskrit

[ Sanskrit | Technical terms ]
Submitted by: Admin Published on: September 17, 2008
The literary language of ancient India
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Prakrit

[ Prakrit | English | Technical terms ]
Submitted by: Admin Published on: September 12, 2008
A group of ancient Indic languages related to Sanskrit
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Indo-European

[ English | Technical terms ]
Submitted by: Admin Published on: August 10, 2008
One of the major language families of the world with substantial representation in India
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Dravidian

[ English | History | Groups | Technical terms ]
Submitted by: Admin Published on: July 29, 2008
A race and a language family now mostly found in South India
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Devanagari

[ Sanskrit | Technical terms ]
Submitted by: Admin Published on: July 26, 2008
The most common Indian alphabet
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Which tree has the largest spreading crown in the world?

[ History | Plants ]
Submitted by: Admin. Published on: June 12, 2008
The banyan or strangler fig.
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Lexical entries in the Glossary

[ Website | Help ]
Author: Admin Published on: June 11, 2008
The set of sounds (or phonemes) in the English language is rather different from that of most Indian languages, and a substantial amount of pronunciation information is lost when a word from one of these languages is transcribed to English. If you want to know how an Indian word is really spelt in the language it comes from (and how to pronounce that), then the IndiCS.InfO Glossary is your friend. But to be able to make the most of it, you are advised to familiarise yourself with the notation used in it.
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How many Indian languages are spoken by more than a million people?

Submitted by: Admin. Published on: May 30, 2008
Twenty-four.
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