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Well that's simply not true. There's lots of shared history ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognate ), common ancestor-wor
by internet_points 7mo ago
Well that's simply not true. There's lots of shared history ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognate ), common ancestor-words, and of course modern loans like "lacquer" and "crimson", but the "parents" of Sanskrit and Germanic languages diverged before Sanskrit appeared around 1500 BCE (earliest assumed date of Vedic Sanskrit, same time as Mycenaean Greek), there's lots of language trees online that make this clearer
https://jacklynch.net/language.html https://jacklynch.net/language.html
https://learn.kids4alll.eu/sites/default/files/unit/oer/doc/lpp-total-e-2022-dois_0.pdf https://learn.kids4alll.eu/sites/default/files/unit/oer/doc/...
https://www.theguardian.com/education/gallery/2015/jan/23/a-language-family-tree-in-pictures https://www.theguardian.com/education/gallery/2015/jan/23/a-... is a beautiful one
- swaminarayan 7mo agoWell above articles are misleading, it depends on who writes it, nobody has concrete proof. so please don't blindly trust.