What is the connection between the Finnish language and Sanskrit?

Question

Additionally, are there similarities between the Khmer language and Finnish due to the Sanskrit connection?

If you ask Khmer speakers living in Cambodia today, they insist upon a strong connection between their language and Sanskrit and Pali.

Answer 1

I don't think there are connections between Finnish and Sanskrit or Khmer, unless you would like to go back to history as far as almost beginning of time. Each of them belong to a different language family, have completely different roots for words and grammar structure.

Answer 2

Officially there is no connection between Finnish and Sanskrit since Finnish belongs to the Uralic group of languages along with Estonian, Karelian, Saami (Lapp; Laponic) and Hungarian. On the other hand, neighboring Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian are distant Sanskrit relatives since they are Indo-European, even Satem Indo-European languages.

However, if the Nostratic Language Macrofamily theory is correct Sanskrit and Finnish could still be distantly related to each other. So could the Dravidian, Hamito-Semitic, Turkic, Mongolian, Tungus, Japanese, Korean and Chuchi-Eskimoan languages. Even before the Nostratic theory was proposed in the mid-1960's, some linguists still speculated that Proto-Indo-European ( or Urindoeuropäisch) may have started out as a dialect of Finnish.

Answer 3

Both Finnish and Sanskrit are Indo-European languages so they have some common root language.

However, Finnish is in the Finno-Ugric sub-family of the Indo-European language family tree, which is a different sub-group than Sanskrit. So they have some distant commonality however they are not closely-related.

Khmer is completely un-related to either Finnish or Sanskrit. The Khmer language is part of the Austro-Asiatic language family tree -- different from the Indo-European language family tree.

However, the script that the Khmer language is written in shares a relationship with Sanskrit and the more ancient Brahmi language. The Khmer alphabet is descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India by way of the Pallava script, which was used in southern India and South East Asia during the 5th and 6th Centuries AD. The oldest dated inscription in Khmer, found at Angkor Borei in Takev Province south of Phnom Penh, dates from 611 AD.

The Khmer alphabet closely resembles the Thai and Lao alphabets, which were developed from it.

Answer 4

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