Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
| From: | Nikhil Sinha <nsinha_in@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 15, 2003, 6:12 |
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>"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.
Nikhil
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