>The brahman was the reciter of hymns from the atharvaveda who was largely silent and observes the procedures and uses Atharvaveda mantras to 'heal' it when mistakes have been made.
Obvious example:
Arabic from at least the 7th century AD:
As an Arabic speaker, I can totally read a text the way it was pronounced 14 centuries ago and also perfectly understand it.
You cannot say the same thing for European languages.
Probably the same for sanskrit.
I may be able to do something similar in Spanish. I've read Emilianensian /Glosas/ in Navarrese-Aragonese and understand near the 95% of it. That being a close Romance to Castillian Spanish.
Scroll down and compare, you don't need to understand Spanish:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glosas_Emilianenses
Also, I can perfectly read Don Quixote. My main issues would be the old Medieval slang with things that do not exist anymore or they changed a lot. But without the footer annotations, I had no issues at all to understand the 80% of it.
But, spelling it? Heck, it didn't change at all, our Spanish standards (Nebrija's grammar) date back to that era.
You probably cannot. Every region with a tradition of reciting the Qur'an has their own way of pronouncing it. It would be a strange coincidence if your tradition in particular happened to keep the pronunciation unchanged while all the others didn't.
E.g. do you pronounce ﺽ as a pharyngealized voiced alveolar lateral fricative? That's the most likely reconstruction of the sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B8%8C%C4%81d
Exactly my point.
You’re under the impression I cannot because of your limited knowledge of this topic: even if 1 letter was slightly different (which it is not), how does that discard the prononciation of 99% of the rest?
>> Every region with a tradition of reciting the Qur'an has their own way of pronouncing it
Plain wrong.
If you knew the topic, you would know that the various way to read the Holy Quran are so close that you could just say they are identical.
In my original post, I’m not even necessarily talking about the holy Quran.
What about the vast poetry written in Arabic in pre-Islamic times that anyone today can read the same way?
I will not get into the subject of whether I would understand it or not since you are still debating whether I would pronounce it the same way.
BTW, this is very different from : how does one pronounce Latin etc.
Indeed, that is why modern scientists believe that ﺽ must have represented some kind of lateral sound, like a lateral fricative (or maybe a lateral affricate or a stop with lateral release – the descriptions aren't detailed enough to distinguish between these options.) But most modern speakers nonetheless pronounce it as a plain stop or dental fricative instead of lateral.
Having a description of the pronunciation doesn't mean that someone reading the description will be able to follow it perfectly. Otherwise everyone learning a foreign language would be able to develop a native-like accent just by reading about the correct pronunciation.
As a Finnish speaker, "Ganges" has the familiar form of a name borrowed from Greek or Latin, and it does not need further adaptation. "Ganga", on the other hand, sounds awkward in Finnish. Had ancient Finns been in contact with India, we would probably know the river as Kanka or Kankajoki ("Kanka river"). The latter in particular sounds like a proper Finnish river name.
Place names are notoriously tricky. The town I live in is now called Yeovil. It has well over sixty documented spellings since around 500CE. It started off as Gifle - bend in the river. G -> Y is a common Old English/Saxon to modern English thing (-gard and -yard, -burg and -bury, dag or tag and day.) If you squint really hard you can get the rest of the word OK. It was Ival, Givelle, Evil and all sorts of spellings on the way to today. There was also a vowel shift en-route and a generally open approach to spelling.
In Greek we have adopted many Turkish words and we always stick an "-i" at the end. For example, "passoumi" (a kind of footwear, "passoum" in Turkish), "briki" (for making coffee, "brik" in Turkish), "ati" (horse, "at" in Turkish) etc. I think we've also taken some Slavic words and treated them this way, for example "boureki" (borek, dumpling), kokoretsi ("kokorec") and probably others I can't think of now.