Re: Old Languages

<< Amber Adams <amber@O...> wrote:
Interestingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, most Indians who are not
familiar with linguistics believe that all Indian languages came from
Sanskrit.

This is probably due to Sanskrit's prominence, as well as the fact
that
a large number of loanwords were passed back and forth between it and
the Dravidian languages.  Hindi, Panjabi, and the other northern
languages
of course can trace a more-or-less direct lineage back to Sanskrit. >>

That's true, I have an Indian acquaintance who takes German, and she
has always claimed that the two languages have similar words solely
because German, like every language, comes from Sanskrit...

I've tried to explain about Proto-Indo-European and all, but it's
like explaining something to a wall... :P

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