Language, Music & Games
Systematic phonetics (Shiksha)
1st millennium BCEVedic phoneticians (Pratishakhya authors)Shiksha & Pratishakhya textsPan-Indian / unspecified
1,000 BCE
Precise classification of speech sounds by place and manner of articulation.
- Dated
- 1,000–1 BCE
- As scholars put it
- 1st millennium BCE
- Originator
- Vedic phoneticians (Pratishakhya authors)
- Source text
- Shiksha & Pratishakhya texts
- Region
- Pan-Indian / unspecified
- Discipline
- Language, Music & Games
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Modern articulatory phonetics developed in the 19th-20th c.
Fair to say
A descriptive phonetic tradition; modern phonetics adds instruments and acoustics.
Path to modern innovation
Foundational to phonetics and speech science.
Transmission
Studied by Western linguists from the 19th c.
References
- 1Pratishakhyas
- 2standard histories of linguistics
Further reading
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