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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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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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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There is certainly a distinct concept of "elite" literature vs "common man" literature in Malayalam. The former was Sanskrit(ish), the...1/n
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...latter more "common tongue" aka (what became) Malayalam. Quite possible the eventual acceptance of the latter was about developing... 2/n
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