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How come Indians don't speak Sanskrit anymore :(?

Come on bro, even Tibetan script and language structure is borrowed from Sanskrit, which is similar case with my own language (same script, grammar and letters).

For rice there's no english comparable phonetic but if I write it, it sounds like 'dlzhong' (I know it sounds totally wrong :P).

Technically the word Denzong itself means "Valley of Rice" aka Sikkim's name. :)

We even use the Nepali word "bhat" as a loan-word at times. It is a common thing in Sikkim.

Come on now... :no:

Tibeto language is Sanskrit. Sanskrit is not a Aryan language.. lab lab la......


I am tired of your BS. And there is not a single thread where I dont bump into you...:sick:
 
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Come on now... :no:

Tibeto language is Sanskrit. Sanskrit is not a Aryan language.. lab lab la......


I am tired of your BS. And there is not a single thread where I dont bump into you...:sick:

Ancient India from the Mahbharata and Ramayan times used to interact with Tibetans if you don't know any thing about this just keep your hatred to your self.

In the above mentioned epics Tibetans were called Kiranthi people

Kiranti people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

People mistakenly call these people as Han Chinese, we only know Tibetans not Hans.
 
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I mean while Tamil is largely different in many ways despite similar loan-words from Sanskrit, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada are big time derived from Sanskrit.

Hmmm thats wrong. None of the Dravidian languages are derived from Sanskrit perse. But they are influenced by it in varying levels. Malayalam being the most influenced to Tamil at the other end, being least influenced with Telugu andd Kannada inbetween.
 
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Actually I think being a supa dupa puwa indinas can speak any language, but they can't talk logic.:chilli:
 
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What for? What earthly purpose would it serve?

If not for anything else it would serve as a link language that is acceptable to all states without the grouse of having a link language that is not Indian. It could even be named as the national language.

Moreover it would reduce the dependence of many to study the scriptures without depending on ill-informed western transalated versions.

Sanskrit must be allowed to die. Because with it, dies a part of the Indian identity.
 
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nope , it's Devanagari , if you know any of these indian languages Hindi,Bangali,Marathi,Gujrathi,Panjabi,Bhojpuri,nepali you can understand sanskrit in some amout because all of them are dialect of sanskrit . all of these languages use same alphabet system(near about). :azn:


I'm baffled.

The man was talking about sounds like. Where did you get Devanagari sounding like anything? It's a script, for heavens sake.

These are emphatically not dialects of Sanskrit. These are all descended from middle Prakrit, and please don't tell me that is a descendant of Sanskrit.

Using the same alphabet system has nothing to do with the sound, the vocalisation. Persian uses the same script as Arabic, and the two languages come from two different language systems, from the Indo-European and the Semitic group of languages respectively.
 
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Thanks to the thread starter.

Over a period of last 2,000 years, Sanskrit got simplified into regional languages, namely what outside people know as "state languages" of India. Barring Urdu, Nagamese and a couple of others, everything else is derived from Sanskrit including my mother tongue and even Tibetan.

Today Sanskrit is alive among enthusiasts and in the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain prayers.

This is not correct.

The so-called regional languages you are referring to are descended from a language parallel to classical Sanskrit. Both were descended from the same original, Vedic Sanskrit.

Urdu and Nagamese are also descended from Prakrit ultimately; they all belong to the Indo-Aryan language system.
 
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Wrong perception consolidated by regionalists and neo-regionalist activists.

I mean while Tamil is largely different in many ways despite similar loan-words from Sanskrit, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada are big time derived from Sanskrit.

I was quite at ease in Kerala where I could understand some locals who were conversing (relatively slowly compared to their usual speed of the language). And this is without me knowing any proper regional language of our country.


This is completely wrong. There are numerous loan words from Sanskrit in Malayalam, more than in any other Dravidian language, but the grammar and structure are derived from Tamil, from which it broke away only a few generations ago. Tamil is very poorly stocked with loan words, Telugu, Kannada and Tulu come in between.
 
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I had heard that a research has shown that Sanskrit is the best language for computer programming

No. That is quite incorrect, and a huge source of confusion created due to the fact that Sanskrit experts know little about data structures and computer language structures, and computer scientists know little about Sanskrit, about grammar or about Panini.

Sanskrit per se is a language which is grammatically unnaturally clear, compared to other languages of that antiquity. The reason for this is that it was rigorously analyzed and its rules set down methodically by a genius known as Panini. His method of imparting information about grammatical rules included using data structures and recursion; this was several centuries before Christ!

If you know about data structures, if you know any block structured language from C onwards, you might be able to follow this on your own. Please say if you are ok with data structures and with languages that are relevant, and if you want to follow up the subject.


pray tell where you heard that.
Also it's a dead language, how does a dead language become the "best language for computer programming" ?

I would say that it would probably be one of the worst since there are no native speakers and few people who actually know it enough to program in it.

Read my comment above, in response to UDAY CAMPUS.

Who says Sanskrit is Dead language? Even U use it every day life..... Need stuff understand that. Btw when he said Computer programming that doesnt mean using the literal language....
Not only the Indians speak it every day but the whole world speaks it...
Matrah---Mother
Bratrah---Brother
Navig----Navigation
etc
Those who think otherwise well cant help them.

<Groan>

Loyalty is fine, misplaced loyalty can be lethal. Please read my post above, a response to UDAY CAMPUS, for a sketchy outline.

Expectedly the proud Tamil disagrees on that..:D

Quite correctly, as it happens.

What he was saying was correct Sanskrit by far its the most advance language ever know to mankind.
Every word in Sanskrit is self explanatory n its grammer principles r also perfectly well defined n work on every word or sentence.

This is the reason that it could be used easily for computer programing but has limited applicability as programing language as its not spoken by much people now

Here r some links for my n his claim

Similarities between Sanskrit and Programming Languages | uttiSTha bhArata

Inverse Squared: Sanskrit - The Best Language For Computer Programming?

NASA on Sanskrit & Artificial Intelligence by Rick Briggs

N for ur kind information Sanskrit is still used by natives of atleast 4-5 villages in India where thousands of people still use it in their day to day life as means of communication

For more info about those villages go read my post no.32 on this thread u idiot:hitwall:

You are positively dangerous.

Your first and third references more or less describe the befuddlement of western people confronted by linguistics bravos and fanboys, and I suspect you have not even read your second reference. It ridicules positions like yours.

Whether people from .4 or 5 villages still speak it or not is irrelevant. It is still a dead language.

Its identity crisis for some to show brazen illogical hatred for anything slightly related to Hinduism, to justify their existence ;)
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Soon, he"ll say that Sanskrit was brought by Aryan invaders and imposed on Sub continent, which i have debunked several times. :lol:

May we disagree on this one? In the most friendly way, of course.

Come on now... :no:

Tibeto language is Sanskrit. Sanskrit is not a Aryan language.. lab lab la......


I am tired of your BS. And there is not a single thread where I dont bump into you...:sick:


This is the only thing we have in common.
 
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Ancient India from the Mahbharata and Ramayan times used to interact with Tibetans if you don't know any thing about this just keep your hatred to your self.

In the above mentioned epics Tibetans were called Kiranthi people

Kiranti people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

People mistakenly call these people as Han Chinese, we only know Tibetans not Hans.

This does not seem right. Please look it up; we may or may not have had relations with the Tibetans. That does not amount to the Tibeto-Burman languages being descended from Sanskrit. The two groups of languages are hugely different.

Actually I think being a supa dupa puwa indinas can speak any language, but they can't talk logic.:chilli:


You are quite right, as always.

Now will you go away? Your certificate will be mailed to you.
 
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