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Astralcat Apr 12, 2013 11:44:00

Replying to tjj

I've always been fascinated by the widely held theory that Sanskrit may be the root of all modern European languge eg. Yoga in Sanskrit means 'union' and the English word 'yoke' is said to be a derivation of this.

http://mutiny.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/sanskrit-mother-of-european-languages-says-prof-dean-brown/

tiompan Apr 12, 2013 11:57:28

Replying to Astralcat

Astralcat wrote:

http://mutiny.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/sanskrit-mother-of-european-languages-says-prof-dean-brown/

Sir William Jones a British judge in India in 1786 was the first to conclude that PIE (proto Indo European ) was the common source for Sanskrit , Latin and Greek and probably Celtic, German and Persian too .

tk421 Apr 12, 2013 14:12:50

Replying to Astralcat

Hello

I'm not completely sure about this but I remember reading somewhere about the link that can be shown between Gaelic/Gallic and other Indo-European languages through the roots of certain words. I think they went back to the sanskrit roots though I'm not sure about that.

From memory the only word that springs to mind is the word for king in different Irish Latin and the word used in India:
ri/rex/raj.

I think that the underlying reason was that Gaelic/Gallic was at an extreme geographical end of the territory of Indo-European languages so had perhaps not evolved or mixed with other languages or developed beyond its roots as much as other languages might have.