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Could you please elaborate on this a little more? How did German and Finnish derive from Sanskrit? Could you give examples?

• h1karu 13y ago
  Russian too.
• nkuttler 13y ago
  Derived 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.
  • chattoraj 13y ago
    Finnish is Uralic, not Indo-European.
    • nkuttler 13y ago
      Oops, thanks. For a possible relationship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Uralic_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Uralic_languages