Question
A word from this language is used to name a type of noun compound, common in this language, where nouns are concatenated with an implied “and”. A term from this language meaning “join” is used for phenomena such as the English “intrusive R” or French “liaison”, and other phonological changes occurring at the boundaries of morphemes. In Ancient Greek and this language, an (*) aspirated consonant loses its aspiration if another occurs in the next syllable in a law named after Hermann Grassmann. Phenomena such as sandhi were discussed by a writer in this language often considered the first descriptive linguist, namely Panini. The Brahmic scripts used to write this language from the 1st century CE have been largely superseded by Devanagari. For 10 points, name this classical Indo-European language, the sacred language of Hinduism. ■END■
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