VikingRaider
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Hmm, thanks a lot mate for this part ( specially blue ), now it's clear to me that what was the actual purpose for vedic sanksrit. Now it's very much understandable!Vedic sanskrit is like it is by origin/design/meter (whatever combo you believe) to basically preserve the sound exactly. You have to learn at least one Veda to really know why (the process also has many specific tools like memorizing back to front and front to back equally in word order, so to prevent any chance of mistake, much like a code checker)....its not flexible to be used to write/speak new things/ideas...even new grammars/shortcuts/innovations. That was the purpose of classical sanskrit (and of course prakrits which is even more easier given it basically took the form of the local influences wherever it was). Classical sanskrit itself took much influence from Dravidian languages it is increasingly being found (and vice versa).
Yes waiting for his answer .Rest I will let Joe answer for Bengali script pronounciations of Sanskrit. You are right that English will do a lousy job.
Nah I am not sure , I can't read or write even a single word from devnagari, so no way to learn how sanksrit works, although I can speak in hindi well and can understand hindi very well!Are you saying the transliteration and translation are exactly the same (into Bengali)? Bengali (And all prakrit descendants) has all the script it needs to capture Sanskrit (all indic languages essentially do) I think...but not 100% sure. Joe would know more on this I think. I am only familiar with devanagari (and grantha) for written sanskrit (be it Vedic or Classical).
Even Bengali has some different pronunciations as for Agni I hear from TV series the sound is Aagni Dev (aa= u of an umbrella ) and in Bengali we simply pronunce agni as ogni ( অগ্নি) ; although it's a tatsam/direct sanksrit word in Bangla language, still vocal is slightly different! ( so no way that other rules can be same , but again I have no idea sorry for that, my sanksrit knowledge is limited to some mantras that I hear from durga puja, and also from those mantras chanted in TV series ).
Some goes for many others like Arya/Aryan we pronounce it as arjo/আর্য and that sound like G of Argentina, actually it sounds like "J".
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