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Is learning German easier for people who know Sanskrit, and vice versa?
I've heard many times that learning German is easier for those who speak Sanskrit, and vice versa. Is there any linguistic basis for this? What similarities exist between the two languages that may be ...
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How did Sanskrit embedding evolve?
This question is an extension of this one: How did Chinese recursion evolve? . In the comments, Mark Beadles helpfully pointed out that center-embedding is absent from Sanskrit in the early Vedic ...
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Is the Sanskrit spoken natively in pockets in India changing?
There are some small pockets in India where people actually speak Sanskrit as a native language. From Wikipedia:
In these Indian villages, inhabitants of all castes speak Sanskrit natively since ...
