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zem@zem42·Sep 25, 2017Replying to @nishaspillai and @vgrisn't sanskrit considered indo-european? wikipedia says it is11
zem@zem42·Sep 25, 2017Replying to @zem42 @nishaspillai and @vgrbut that the dravidian languages are structurally unrelated to the entire indo-european family11
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Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 25, 2017Replying to @nishaspillai and @zem42It doesn't claim to be all languages (Chinese and African languages are missing), only proto-indo-European (PIE) descended.21
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 25, 2017Replying to @vgr @nishaspillai and @zem42Sanskrit is a small side node because it is a dead classics language so few living speakers. The chart is speaker-population-sized1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 25, 2017Replying to @vgr @nishaspillai and @zem42An interesting q is "Sanskrit derived" vocabulary. I suspect pop notion of common languages being "derived" from scholarly is 100% backwards1
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @vgr @nishaspillai and @zem42Modern commoner langs are derived from dead commoner languages. "Sanskritization" is likely 75% shared historic roots rather than "descent"2:46 PM · Sep 25, 2017
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 25, 2017Replying to @vgr @nishaspillai and @zem42The other 25% from political control. Sanskritization of Hindi by government committees is only one within living memory (post independence)
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 25, 2017Replying to @vgr @nishaspillai and @zem42Point being, Sanskrit is rich, evil great-uncle not direct ancestor. I suspect same is true of other "classical" elite languages like Latin.1