It's not Sanskrit, but William Erskine and Peter von Bohlen argued that this language grew out of a Prakrit dialect.
Abraham Anquetil-Duperron traveled extensively to search for a priest who would teach him this language. It's not Sanskrit, but William Erskine and Peter von Bohlen argued that this language grew out of a Prakrit dialect. This language's word for a divine plant, haoma, aptly illustrates a sound shift in its language family of the sibilant /s/ sound to an /h/ sound. This language's word for "hundred" lends its name to Indo-European languages whose palatovelar consonants were assibilated, forming the generally eastern (*) satem portion of the centum-satem isogloss. The main sources on this language are religious texts like the Fravarane creed, the Yasna liturgy, and the Vendidad. For 10 points, identify this widely-studied language variously classified as Indic, Iranian, and Indo-Iranian, which is named for the Zoroastrian sacred texts written in it.
Abraham Anquetil-Duperron traveled extensively to search for a priest who would teach him this language.
Avestan [or Zend]