Where are Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu?
Modern commoner langs are derived from dead commoner languages. "Sanskritization" is likely 75% shared historic roots rather than "descent"
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Point being, Sanskrit is rich, evil great-uncle not direct ancestor. I suspect same is true of other "classical" elite languages like Latin.
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Do we know that Dravidian languages were in fact "sanskritized"?
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The other 25% from political control. Sanskritization of Hindi by government committees is only one within living memory (post independence)
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