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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You might enjoy this oldie by Abbas Tyrewala (he wrote Munnabhai MBBS and and got famous a few yrs later) creative.sulekha.com/so-who-speaks-
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reshared it with some trepidation on facebook; waiting to see who jumps down my throat in defense of shudh hindi :)
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Hard to argue with hit scriptwriter who's coined gems like "gandhigiri", though him being Muslim creates obvious red herring tack
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I haven't actually met any competent shudh-hindi types who weren't also ifans of more abused vernaculars. Hard not to like bambaiyya for eg
One of my proudest moments is beating out hindi natives for hindi best actor award in freshie drams with my bihari turn 😎 southie revenge
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