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I am a ployglot and know several indian and foreign languages. My favourite is Sanskrit. Why? Once I learnt Sanskrit, esp. the grammar, learning other languages
by slaxman 13y ago
I am a ployglot and know several indian and foreign languages. My favourite is Sanskrit. Why? Once I learnt Sanskrit, esp. the grammar, learning other languages was really easy. You easy almost all languages have their roots from Sanskrit. The grammar rules for German and Finnish, for example, are a subset of Sanskrit.
- chattoraj 13y ago> You easy almost all languages have their roots from Sanskrit. The grammar rules for German and Finnish, for example, are a subset of Sanskrit. Your claims are a subset of the “everything comes from India” school of BSology.[1] German is related to Sanskrit but does not descend from it.[2] Finnish belongs to a different language family entirely.[3] [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5QgeCL1fs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5QgeCL1fs [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IndoEuropeanTree.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IndoEuropeanTree.svg [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages
- donniezazen 13y agoHow do you practice or make yourself not forget the several languages you know? I find it really hard to be proficient in a language unless you live among native speakers?
- srik 13y agoThere is a small village in India which still speaks Sanskrit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattur
- angerman 13y agoCould you please elaborate on this a little more? How did German and Finnish derive from Sanskrit? Could you give examples?
- h1karu 13y agoRussian too.
- nkuttler 13y agoDerived from Sanskrit is probably wrong, but German, Finnish and Sanskrit belong to the Indo-European language family (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-european https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-european). Sanskrit is a very old language in this family tree (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language) and thus very close to the common ancestor. Being close to the ancestor probably means that it shares many traits with it that were inherited by other Indo-European languages. Kinda like how knowing Latin makes it easier to learn Romanic languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanic_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanic_languages), but Romanic languages were really derived from Latin.