Re: Difficulty of Sanskrit, was: Old Languages

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Vasiliy Chernov wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 07:13:24 +0200, Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...> wrote:
>
> [...]
> >It's the verb conjugations that are truly horrible,
> >but fortunately, Sanskrit relies mostly on participial
> >construction, and preciously few finite verb forms
> >occur in actual texts.
>
> In my limited experience, this applies only to post-epical varieties
> of Sanskrit.
>
> OTOH, Sanskrit conjugations didn't seem to me more complicated than
> the Ancient Greek ones... but maybe that's because I dealt only with
> extensively commented samples ;)
>
I never tried to learn Classical Greek - and my experience with
Sanskrit is limited to the Nala, Hitopadeca and drama.



Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.valdyas.org

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