Re: CHAT: t-shirt
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 28, 2000, 1:50 |
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Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> Not to forget Sanskrit! Doesn't the name actually mean "made up", i.e.
> "conlang"? Few linguists today believe that it was anyone's vernacular
> at any time.
Not at the time, but wasn't it a description of the language used in the
Vedic texts, which were an archaic form of the language in use at the
time?
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