The history of phonology may be traced back to the Ashtadhyayi, the <answer>Sanskrit</answer> grammar composed by Pāṇini in the 4th century BC. In particular the Shiva Sutras, an auxiliary text to the Ashtadhyayi, introduces what can be considered a list of the phonemes of the <answer>Sanskrit</answer> language, with a notational system for them that is used throughout the main text, which deals with matters of morphology, syntax and semantics.
What type of grammar was phonology first a part of?
Sanskrit