Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 14, 2003, 13:07 |
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At 08:24 14.8.2003 +0100, Joe wrote:
> > --- Thomas Leigh <thomas@...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > > (hey, never mind that no-one ever speaks
> > > Sanskrit.
> >
> > > Deutsche Welle broadcasts a Sanskrit program.
> >
> > 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.
Actually each Indian census finds some people claiming
Sanskrit as their first language!
/BP 8^)
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