alt Hacker NewsThat still does not make Sanskrit an ancestor language of English, though both English and Sanskrit do share a common ancestry several thousand years ago.
English has borrowed words from many languages, as all but the most isolated languages have.
That still does not make Sanskrit an ancestor language of English, though both English and Sanskrit do share a common ancestry several thousand years ago.
English has borrowed words from many languages, as all but the most isolated languages have.
> That still does not make Sanskrit an ancestor language of English
You are taking 'ancestor' in a strict technical sense, which was clearly not my intention.
> though both English and Sanskrit do share a common ancestry several thousand years ago
And those roots can be found and recognized in the subsequent languages, and there lies the value.