isn't sanskrit considered indo-european? wikipedia says it is
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that's interesting because i've also seen claims that urdu words crept into hindi due to a "high status" perception of urdu as more cultured
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Languages of political elites tend to suffer same fate as the political elites themselves. But literary/cultural elite langs retain status
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Pre-Islam, Sanskrit was clearly the "prestige language": fast, elite-driven, "cosmopolitan" spread from top https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_(sociolinguistics) …
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Main ancestor of Hindi is Khari-Boli, which was a Lucknow Islamic-terroir prestige language (replacing Persian). Hindi = KB-Urdu+Sanskrit
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The earliest recognized "Malayalam" is a 50-50 Sanskrit/Tamil mix called Manipravalam. Or so I was taught. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipravalam …
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I'm willing to bet the basis for the recognition is some royalty-sponsored elite works
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