01-18-2007, 06:48 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Jan 18 2007, 03:19 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Jan 18 2007, 03:19 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>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.
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NOne of this language IE sub-families resemble whit each other.I dont know if IE family as a whole have a practical role .But is a practical role of sub-families as you can learn easy a language from the same sub-family.For exemple an italian can learn spanish very easy as is in the same latin sub-family.
Latin and greek also dont resemble whit any other IE sub-family.
I dont know how many root-words are cognate in IE languages(i didnt find this information though is important to know,seems that is a secret of the linguists <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> ).May be are 4000-5000 words whit IE root in almost every IE language,but im not sure.
IE family have over 12 sub-families,i dont know if any language group has so many sub-families.
First when i had hear hindi,sound like a kind of japanese for me so i confirm your observation.In fact i was to say same thing abt japanese before i read your post.Whit long sylable as japanese not short ones like chinese.I dont know how sanscrite sound but the words are longer then hindi ones.
Even is the most studied language family ,The evolution of IE remain a mistery.
Even the gods have diferent names,though the general tri-functional pattern(like 3 gunas,3 plans like heaven-athmosfere-earth etc)of IE remain.
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.
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NOne of this language IE sub-families resemble whit each other.I dont know if IE family as a whole have a practical role .But is a practical role of sub-families as you can learn easy a language from the same sub-family.For exemple an italian can learn spanish very easy as is in the same latin sub-family.
Latin and greek also dont resemble whit any other IE sub-family.
I dont know how many root-words are cognate in IE languages(i didnt find this information though is important to know,seems that is a secret of the linguists <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> ).May be are 4000-5000 words whit IE root in almost every IE language,but im not sure.IE family have over 12 sub-families,i dont know if any language group has so many sub-families.
First when i had hear hindi,sound like a kind of japanese for me so i confirm your observation.In fact i was to say same thing abt japanese before i read your post.Whit long sylable as japanese not short ones like chinese.I dont know how sanscrite sound but the words are longer then hindi ones.
Even is the most studied language family ,The evolution of IE remain a mistery.
Even the gods have diferent names,though the general tri-functional pattern(like 3 gunas,3 plans like heaven-athmosfere-earth etc)of IE remain.