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Old Indo-Aryan
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Indo-Aryan languages.
Old Indo-Aryan
The earliest evidence of the group is from Vedic Sanskrit, which is used in the ancient preserved texts of the Indian subcontinent, the foundational canon of the Hindu synthesis known as the Vedas. The Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni is of similar age to the language of the Rigveda, but the only evidence of it is a few proper names and specialised loanwords.