Historical Writing Systems

This is the correct option. Sanskrit was the language meant almost exclusively for the priests and elites.

This is the correct option. Aramaic and Greek scripts were used for inscriptions in Afghanistan.

The Brahmi script is the earliest known Indian writing system, dating back to the 3rd century BCE during the Mauryan period. It was used to write Ashokan edicts and is the ancestor of most modern Indian scripts. Mori is not a recognized script, Devanagari evolved later, and Kharosti was used in northwest India but not the earliest.

The Old Testament was originally written primarily in Biblical Hebrew, with small portions in Aramaic. Greek and Latin translations came much later - the Septuagint (Greek) and Vulgate (Latin). Arabic is not the original language.

This is the correct option. The pattern followed here is that each letter of the word is moved four steps backwards to obtain the code. Thus, 'F' moves four steps backwards to 'B', 'E' to 'A' and so on.

The Baburnama (autobiography of Mughal emperor Babar) was written in Turki (Chagatai Turkish), which was Babar's native language. It is considered one of the finest autobiographies in Islamic literature. It was later translated into Persian during Akbar's reign.

The Indus Valley script is written in a style called Boustrophedon, meaning 'as the ox turns' - alternating direction between lines. Devanagari is a later Brahmic script, and Greek is unrelated.

This is the correct answer as the passage states that the oldest known linguistic work, Panini’s grammar of Sanskrit, consisted entirely of morphology.

The inscription 'Satyameva Jayate' on the state emblem of India is written in Devanagari script. Devanagari is the script used for several Indian languages including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit. Urdu uses a modified Arabic script, English uses the Latin alphabet, and while the phrase is from a Sanskrit Upanishad, the writing system used is Devanagari.

Kharoshti was an ancient script used in northwestern India and Pakistan, written from right to left like Arabic. Brahmi and Sharada were written left to right. Kharoshti was used for Gandhari Prakrit and is associated with the Gandhara region.

Ashoka's edicts were primarily written in Brahmi script, which was the most widely used script in ancient India during the Mauryan period. Kharoshti was used in northwest regions (modern-day Pakistan/Afghanistan). Aramaic and Greek scripts were used for edicts in Afghanistan, intended for foreign audiences, but these were fewer in number.

Ashoka's edicts were primarily written in Brahmi script, which was the most widely used script in ancient India during his reign (3rd century BCE). While some edicts used Kharoshti (mainly in the northwest), Aramaic, and Greek (in the northwest and Afghanistan), Brahmi was the dominant script used across the empire.

The undeciphered Harappan script consists of pictographic signs and symbols that represent objects or ideas. Archaeologists have found around 400-500 distinct signs, mostly depicting plants, animals, geometric patterns, and human forms, which qualifies as a family of quasi-pictographic writings rather than pure geometric shapes or abstract symbols.

Orthography is the methodology of writing a language. It includes rules of spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation.

The word thesaurus comes from Greek, meaning treasure or storehouse. It was used to describe a collection of words arranged by meaning. Latin and Sanskrit have different roots.