But the vocabulary is heavily Sanskrit derived. Hard to accept that they're completely unconnected, with Sanskrit such a lonely little node.
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Replying to @nishaspillai @zem42
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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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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Replying to @nishaspillai @vgr
by "sanskritised" do you mean deliberate and systematic insertion of sanskrit vocabulary?
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Replying to @zem42 @nishaspillai
Yes. For Hindi it was living memory (why Doordarshan Hindi sounds unnatural): an actual committee sat down to purge Urdu/sub Sanskrit origin
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Replying to @vgr @nishaspillai
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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Kinda like the claim that Appalachian/redneck english is actually close to courtly Elizabethan or something.
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