not connected to any of those, are they?
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isn't sanskrit considered indo-european? wikipedia says it is
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but that the dravidian languages are structurally unrelated to the entire indo-european family
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It doesn't claim to be all languages (Chinese and African languages are missing), only proto-indo-European (PIE) descended.
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Sanskrit is a small side node because it is a dead classics language so few living speakers. The chart is speaker-population-sized
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An interesting q is "Sanskrit derived" vocabulary. I suspect pop notion of common languages being "derived" from scholarly is 100% backwards
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Modern commoner langs are derived from dead commoner languages. "Sanskritization" is likely 75% shared historic roots rather than "descent"
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The other 25% from political control. Sanskritization of Hindi by government committees is only one within living memory (post independence)

