Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit

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From: "Nikhil Sinha" <nsinha_in@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit


> >"Joe" <joe@...> likis:
> > > I also suspect that a number of Hindu Indians
> > > will be surprised to learn that "no one speaks
> > > it" anymore! ;)
> >
> > Well, not as a first language, at any rate.
>
> There is a village in the state of Karnataka, South india, which uses
> Sanskrit as there day to day language. They write, speak and do everything
> they can in Sanskrit. But, I'm not sure its there first languages.
>
> Many Pandits and even other people speak and understand Sanskrit and there
> are Sanskrit news on TV and radio. I know two persons who speak Sanskrit
> very nicely.
Somewhat like Latin in the middle ages, then?

> Nikhil
>

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