Indians say that their ancient Sanskrit language gave birth to several Asian and European languages. react.?

Answer 1

*Theres nothing to 'react' to, my dear !!!
It is true that sanskrit is the Mother of all languages, on this earth !!!!

Answer 2

Hello,

Ganesh has got it right. But he does not say why Indians so often claim that the languages of the North are 'descended' from Sanskrit. This fanciful notion arose from the fact that alongside the sternly prescriptivist Sanskrit speech of the élite communities, there were pullulating masses of people speaking the lower-prestige dialects or Prakrits:

sanskrit = 'together made' = polished, refined, cultured
prakrit = 'outward made' = spontaneous, natural

The Prakrits split up and differentiated with each other, eventually yielding the modern languages, Marathi, Hindi, Sindhi and so on. Then, as now, popular beliefs about language were tied to prejudices about caste and formal education. Remember, a 'language' is a dialect with an army and a navy. Artificially-stabilized Sanskrit and the quickly-evolving Prakrits were all related as dialects. In other words, between Indo-European and Sanskrit/Prakrit, there was something else. Sanskrit is most definitely not the parent language of all those modern northern languages. The size of the Sanskrit vocabulary in a language means nothing. The southern language Kannada has more Sanskrit vocabulary than Hindi ever had, and it is Dravidian, not at all Indo-European. The continuing prestige of Sanskrit and modern prescriptivism have resulted in dictionaries of Hindi, Marathi and so on which are bloated with Sanskrit borrowings. It's an odd situation, reminiscent of official attempts in Haïti to make the French-based Creole more like French through massive borowings.

Answer 3

The modern languages of Northern India and Pakistan plus the languages of the Gypsies (Roma) and the Sinhala language of Sri Lanka do all derive from Sanskrit. But this is not true of the many Indo-European languages of Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, and so on (e.g., English, Modern Greek, Russian, Persian, Kurdish, Pushtu, and many others). They are RELATED to Sanskrit not as daughters but as nieces (if you will). They are derived from ancient languages such as Latin, Ancient Greek, and so on, which were sisters of Sanskrit. This has been known since the late 18th century, but still to this day nonspecialists repeat the same myths, such as this one.

Answer 4

Sanskrit is the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family, and an official language of India. Hindi, the main official language of India, has descended from Sanskrit. Seen by many as the Asian equivalent of Latin, its vast religious and literary tradition is most famously seen in its Hindu or Vedic traditions. The first Sanskrit text available is the Rig Veda,

There is a strong genetic relationship between the various forms of Sanskrit and the Middle Indo-Aryan "Prakrits", or vernacular languages, (in which, among other things, most early Buddhist texts are written) and the modern Indo-Aryan languages.
There has also been reciprocal influence between Sanskrit and the Dravidian languages.
Vedic Sanskrit is the oldest attested language of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family. It is very closely related to Avestan, the language of Zoroastrianism. The genetic relationship of Sanskrit to modern European languages and classical Greek and Latin can be seen in cognates like mother and matr or father and pitr. Other interesting links are to be found between Sanskritic roots and Persian, present in such a striking example as the generic term for 'land' which in Sanskrit is sthaan and in Persian staan.

The word "sthaana" in Sanskrit meaning place, which is now changed to stan (Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkministan, Afganistan, et cetera) indicating that the language was circulated in these regions. India is called Hindusthan, the region of Hindus, of people living beyond Sindhu river
( Indus).
As a high level Indo-European language, one time, it had widespread influence on the people in Asia and Northern regions (including part of Russia.) Unfortunately, over long time period, due to conquests and expansionist attitudes of certain beliefs and societies, it stayed concentrated mainly in India/Nepal region.
Sanskrit historically has had no single script associated with it. The ancient Brahmi characters were used by Ashoka for his pillar inscriptions. Later, Grantha was used, as were other scripts such as Kannada in the South, and Bengali and other north Indian scripts in other regions. Presently the syllabic Devanagari ( meaning "as used in the city of the Gods") script has become the most widely used and associated with Sanskrit.

Answer 5

This is not true. Sanskrit is an Indo-European language, like Latin, Greek, English, Russian, Farsi, and many other languages. They all share a common ancestor, which is called Proto-Indo-European. We have no written records of Proto-Indo-European, but we can hypothesize its existence from the similarities in the the existing Indo-European languages.

For instance, English "wisdom", Greek "eidos", Latin "video" and Sanskrit "veda" are all hypothesized to be descended from the Proto-European word *weid "to see".

http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE556.html

Answer 6

Sanskrit is somewhat related to european languages but i dont think it actually spawns 'several' languages.. Southeast Asian countries did borrowed some sanskrit words... Maybe it was this fact that confused them indians

Answer 7

NO way,
u got to be kiddin, wat u said is only for north india and for the kind info TAMIL is older than sanskirt then how in the world sanskrit can be the mother of asian and europen lang ah,its absolutely wrong and baseless ,,,, dont fall for false impression and iam sure that sanskrit has nothing to do with other asian or european lang...

Answer 8

firstly... its not that only indians say that... historians all over the world think so...
i just saw a british documentary yesterday... they say that languages like sanskrit, ancient greek and latin (which like sanskrit, is no longer in widespread use) have amazing similarity in some of the words.... we dont know which came from which... but they're all related...
example... the word for father in greek is patar... in latin it is peter.... and in sanskrit it is pitr...
the word for mother in greek is matar... and in latin is meter.. and in sanskrit is matr..
see the fact that even in english it has the same letters.. but the vowels are different...
the same is with the word brother... in sanskrit it is called bhratha...
another very surprising fact is that the word used for 'horse' is same in all the 3 languages... asva... that exact word is used for a horse in greek, latin and sanskrit...
so... these are the few words of the words that match up.. there are many more like these...
therefore these languages have a very close relationship with each other... whether greek or latin led to sanskrit or vice versa... we dont know... some historian with better understanding of this subject might be able to tell better as compared to layman like me...
historians believe that many of the Indian languages are derived from the language of sanskrit... and i personally think so too... many of the words in pure hindi resemble that of sanskrit... and the script is same too... its called devnagri..

Answer 9

According to linguistic studies, this is true. That is why many current language groups are called Indo-European languages. Sub groups of the Indo-European groups include (but are not limited to) the Romance and Germanic languages.

Answer 10

only the north Indian languages

Answer 11

there are indians of european genes and the majority with darker skins are indian of indian genes. the former believes sanskrit was their mother tongue. and sanskrit was the mother all languages thet flourished in india. and this confusion is being carried on.