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Lydia Leftcoast

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Fri Jul-22-05 03:20 PM
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30. It's literally thousands of years old

Edited on Fri Jul-22-05 03:21 PM by Lydia Leftcoast

and has grown up from a lot of regional variations.

Its liturgical language, Sanskrit, is one of the oldest surviving Indo-European languages and the ancestor of the languages of northern India, such as Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, and Gujarati. The Sanskrit alphabet, known as devanagari, was adapted for languages of Southeast Asia, such as Burmese, Cambodian, and Thai, as well as for Tibetan. (Southern India speaks completely unrelated languages belonging to the Dravidian family, including Tamil, Telegu, and Malayalam.)

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