all, as to the history of Sanskrit.  It is an Indo-European
language but it has an independent line of development from all the
languages spoken outside the Indian subcontinent, i.e., all its daughters
are spoken, to the best of my knowledge, only in the subcontinent.  Not
only its dhatus but its methodologies have been inherited by its daughters.
Even the Dravidian languages (the other family of languages spoken in the
subcontinent which are not daughters of Sanskrit) have been influenced by
its methodologies.  For example, the first formal grammar of my own mother
tongue, which is not born of Sanskrit, was written in Sanskrit
Panini-style.

Strictly speaking, neither Sanskrit nor its daughters have a word order.
The sophisticated case system makes it possible to