Dhanwar also known as Rai (ISO/DIS 639-3: dhw) is a language spoken in parts of Nepal and Sikkim mainly by the Rai community. Total population: 53,229. Sikkim is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas. ... Rai may refer to: RAI, Radio Audizioni Italiane Rai is the word for paradise in Slavic languages Rai, an ethnolinguistic group of Nepal Raï, a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria, from Bedouin shepherds RaÃ, Brazilian football (soccer) player Rai, a book by Kensaku Shimaki Rai, one of...
The oldest language with a continuous written tradition is Chinese; the oracle script seems to be related to the seal scripts of early Chinese, and is attested from around 1200 BC, and therefore the descendants of that script are still in use.
The earliest attestations of the group are in Vedic Sanskrit, the language used in the ancient preserved texts of India, the foundational canon of Hinduism known as the Vedas.
However, although this preserved the integrity of written language for a long time, the spoken language continues to evolve, and by the sixth century, Sanskrit as a spoken language was rare, being by and large replaced by its descendants, the Prakrits.
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