Re: Old Languages
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 4, 2001, 3:04 |
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Amber Adams scripsit:
> This is probably due to Sanskrit's prominence, as well as the fact that
> Hindi, Panjabi, and the other northern languages
> of course can trace a more-or-less direct lineage back to Sanskrit.
Well, sort of. Sanskrit is really a kind of offshoot from the main line
that leads to the Neo-Indic languages, just as the Romance langs
aren't direct descendants of Classical Latin.
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