<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I did not feel much practical relation between English and other Indian languages I know.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I've heard chaste Hindi. And I've heard my father and uncle as well as swamigal reciting Vedas in proper Samskritam. I've heard Sentamizh (proper Tamil).
German, Dutch, English, French - none of them sound like Samskritam or Hindi, or for that matter Tamil. (But knowing Tamil really helps with pronouncing the nasal sounds in French which many other European students can't initially get their head around. Don't know why this is, but French sounds are quite unique among the European languages in some ways.)
I've heard a lot of Italian and Russian and neither sound like Hindi or Samskritam. Don't know about Greek and Latin, will ask my sister. Only ever heard music in Irish Gaelic and from what I thought I heard, it doesn't sound like any of these Indian languages.
But of all the odd things in the world, there are words in Japanese that sound like they are related to Tamil, Samskritam and Kannada. Maybe this is merely because Japanese is a syllabic language too? But sometimes the similarities seem more than coincidence. Sometimes I wonder if it is Buddhist influence. Don't know.
German, Dutch, English, French - none of them sound like Samskritam or Hindi, or for that matter Tamil. (But knowing Tamil really helps with pronouncing the nasal sounds in French which many other European students can't initially get their head around. Don't know why this is, but French sounds are quite unique among the European languages in some ways.)
I've heard a lot of Italian and Russian and neither sound like Hindi or Samskritam. Don't know about Greek and Latin, will ask my sister. Only ever heard music in Irish Gaelic and from what I thought I heard, it doesn't sound like any of these Indian languages.
But of all the odd things in the world, there are words in Japanese that sound like they are related to Tamil, Samskritam and Kannada. Maybe this is merely because Japanese is a syllabic language too? But sometimes the similarities seem more than coincidence. Sometimes I wonder if it is Buddhist influence. Don't know.