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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by "sanskritised" do you mean deliberate and systematic insertion of sanskrit vocabulary?
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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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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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Both are cultural elite languages as well. English has never lost its political power (yet) and French as a political lang is a joke

