Phonetics was studied as early as NUMBER@1 years ago in ancient LOCATION@1 , with account of the place and manner of articulation of consonants in his 5th century BC treatise on Sanskrit .

The first time phonetics was studied was NUMBER@2 years ago in what is now LOCATION@1 , with , when he wrote about the place and manner of articulation of consonants in Sanskrit in his 5th century BC essay on Sanskrit linguistics .
