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For questions about Sanskrit, the Ancient Classical language of Northern India.
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What is the reason of this alternation?
As for Sanskrit stress, it's a rather complicated issue, not always possible to establish unanimously. …
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how to input long vowel letter ॠ (ṝ) in devanagari keyboard layout?
On a desktop PC under Microsoft Windows in Devanagari-INSCRIPT you enter the short ऋ (ṛ) by holding the ↑Shift key and hitting the +/= key, and the long ॠ (ṝ) is entered by holding simultaneously the …
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Sanskrit consonant clusters
This page has several really extensive lists of Sanskrit conjunct consonants Devanagari aksharas taken from some of the famous Sanskrit grammars and dictionaries, up to 5 consonants in a row. … (UPD: The book TKR refers to in his answer confirms that many of the conjuncts in those lists are fictitious and do not appear in any Sanskrit word or text.) …
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Does Sanskrit really have a large proportion of borrowings from non IE stock?
Burrow's The Sanskrit Language starting from page 374, here are more sources on that:
an article on Dravidian substratum. … The page navigation is in Tamil, the "next page" button is "அடுத்த பக்கம்" in the bottom right corner of the page;
a list of Sanskrit lexemes of Munda origin. …
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Is Thai language related or a descendant of Sanskrit?
Sanskrit, being one of the languages the sacred Buddhist scriptures were written in, also greatly influenced Thai, which has lots of loan words from Sanskrit. …
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Is it possible in Sanskrit to distinguish between the names Rāma and Rām i.e. राम and राम् w...
In the dictionaries, the Sanskrit name राम (Rāma), together with most other Sanskrit words, is given in the form of the stem. … Translating personal names is widespread across languages, so there is no sense in using राम् Rām in a Sanskrit text, since Sanskrit for राम् Rām is राम Rāma which is a regular noun that poses no problems …
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Modern Thai writing system and modern Khmer writing system and the sharing of Non-Sanskrit s...
The symbols the Thai and Khmer scripts share but which are not used in Classical Sanskrit are few. They are these:
Consonant: Khmer ឡ [lɑː] and Thai ฬ [ḷa]. … This symbol is used in Pali and Vedic Sanskrit words for the sound [ḷ] which does not exist in Classical Sanskrit. …
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Standardized and ambiguity-free language
Here's what you were perhaps looking for:
Lojban (ложбан) is a conlang which is a syntactically unambiguous human language with logical and unambiguous structure and greater means of expression aimed …
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Why are many ancient languages so complicated compared to many modern languages?
Hindi is like that, first it lost all the cases which were in Sanskrit, but later it developed a new system of cases. …
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Is Sanskrit really the mother of all languages?
Sanskrit is not the mother of all languages. Sanskrit is not even the mother of the modern Indo-Aryan languages of the Northern India. Neither it is their father or grandfather. … Speaking more linguistically, there are actually two languages called Sanskrit: the Vedic Sanskrit aka the Vedic language (ca. 1500 to 500 BCE), and Sanskrit proper aka Classical Sanskrit (ca. 200 CE to …
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