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According to William Dalrymple, India was once responsible for a third of the world's GDP, with the most advanced textile industry in the world before the East
by echelon_musk 7mo ago
According to William Dalrymple, India was once responsible for a third of the world's GDP, with the most advanced textile industry in the world before the East India Company dismantled it.
A Sanskrit origin is intriguing.
- shagie 7mo agoAs a note, Sanskrit is a "sibling" or cousin of Latin or Greek in the family tree of languages ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/IndoEuropeanTree.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/IndoEuro... ). Neither Latin nor Greek grew from Sanskrit but rather each (and many other languages) grew from Proto-Indo-European that was believed to exist somewhere in 4500 to 2500 BC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_vocabulary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_vocabulary (the "Construction, fabrication" section includes *teks)
- srean 7mo agoAs a novice in the history of languages and being k-lingual in a couple of Indian languages and English, the Farsi language is such a delightful stream of discoveries. Regardless of which k of my languages I restrict myself to, I end up discovering words that are same between Farsi and that language. I understand that this should not be surprising given their roots in Indo-Iranian languages, the largest branches of Indo-European. Nonetheless it is delightful everytime I discover a new one by accident.