LINGUINDIC

< All sanskrit words

śikṣā

It refers to the rudimentary instruction in pronunciation, which included instruction in individual sounds, accent, quantity, and chanting of Vedic verses.

Linguistic Notions

Articulatory Phonetics in Ancient India

Phonetics is the branch of linguistics that studies the physical properties of speech sounds. Within phonetics there are three sub-branches: articulatory, which focuses on the anatomy and physic...

Linguistic Fields

Phonetics

Phonetics is the study of linguistic sound in its physical aspects, articulatory and auditory/acoustic. Already by an early period, the phonetic analysis of Sanskrit had reached an advanced stag...