Joe Shearer
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Urdu is the language of the camp, it's not an Indian language but language of invaders.
Your language is Sanskrit, a failed language that was replaced with the language of foreigners.
If it was not for these quarrels, life would be dull and careworn.
- Urdu is indeed the language of the camp, a composite patois. The grammatical structure is pure Indo-Aryan, derived from the nearest stock language that hosted it, the Khadiboli dialect of Hindi. It is as wholly and uniquely Indian as may be imagined.
- Sanskrit was an artificial creation of one man, the grammarian Panini, and was never disturbed since. Far from being a failed language, it was a scholar's special purpose language, and one used, in a structured way that is too difficult to explain briefly, for literature, specifically, for high literature.
- It was derived from the Vedic dialect of Indo-Aryan, a cognate language of Avestan, an Iranian dialect itself.
- There were other dialects other than the Vedic. These others gave rise to Middle Indic languages, they in turn to Apabhramsa, and those to Abahatta, finally resulting in Modern Indian languages.
- The line of descent of Modern Indian languages is parallel to Sanskrit. The question of failure of Sanskrit must be addressed to those dozens of scholars who sign up every day for these courses, in the universities of the world.
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