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> meaning a scholar of Sanskrit or something else? I studied Sanskrit for 5 years in middle school, so I'm familiar with more than the basics.

> Optimist in what sense The one who wants to see a script for PIE discovered :)




> The one who wants to see a script for PIE discovered :)

I didn't quite understand. Is this related to what the article says: " The discovery of a civilization of people who lived before the Vedic people upended the story of India. Given that it undermines their claims of indigeneity, proponents of Hindutva — the most mainstream strain of Hindu nationalism — balk at the theory of a pre-Vedic civilization, even as evidence for it accumulates across disciplines, including archaeology, genetics, and linguistics. "

Is Sanskrit and Hindutva and PIE related?


Hindutva is a political ideology; Sanskrit and PIE (Proto-Indo-European) were languages, with Sanskrit attested in written form (including an ancient grammar!), but PIE not attested--only reconstructed from the daughter Indo-European languages, Sanskrit being one of them. Sanskrit being rather old, it's closer to PIE than any of today's IE languages; it's very roughly contemporaneous with ancient Greek and Hittite, which are also IE languages.


Tsakonian Greek :)


I don't know how Hindutva is related to this discussion.

I'm just interested in this from a coherence point of view. I believe that learning a super language like PIE would help me understand a lot about human relation to language and vice versa.


The article mentioned Hindutva as I pasted. If I understand correctly, Hindutva people have a vested interest to want this script to be Sanskrit related as opposed to an indigenous Indian language. Is that correct?


> If I understand correctly, Hindutva people have a vested interest to want this ....

Don't know, don't care about this 40 year old concept as much as I do for a 5000 year proto language.




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