Difficulty of Sanskrit, was: Old Languages
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 5, 2001, 18:00 |
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On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 07:13:24 +0200, Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...> wrote:
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>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 ;)
Basilius
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