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==Dialectology== | ==Dialectology== | ||
Lõisian scholars call Vedic Sanskrit "Old Sanskrit" (Puráṙna·saṁscrtaṁ), and unlike in our timeline, more conservative (i.e. less Prakrit-like) dialects were spoken in the first few centuries AD as vernacular languages. | Lõisian scholars call Vedic Sanskrit "Old Sanskrit" (Puráṙna·saṁscrtaṁ), and unlike in our timeline, more conservative (i.e. less Prakrit-like) dialects were spoken in the first few centuries AD as vernacular languages. The situation was a bit like Arabic dialects in our timeline, with Classical Sanskrit (identical to our timeline) serving as a bringe between the different native dialects. | ||
==Sample text== | ==Sample text== |
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