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sipes23
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 Message 9 of 36
20 May 2012 at 6:02am | IP Logged 
This is easily the best news about Sanskrit I've heard all year. I've been thinking about learning Sanskrit for some
time but keep putting it off because I hate the available materials.
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 Message 10 of 36
20 May 2012 at 7:25am | IP Logged 
I can't wait for the Murty Library. Not only will it have Sanskrit works but also works
from all the major literary traditions in India. Sheldon Pollock who is the general
editor for the Murty Library was also the general editor for
The Clay Sanskrit Library For
reasons some have said are pedagogical, they have decided to Romanize the Sanskrit
instead of using Devanagari, however. Check out their downloads page to get sample
sections/chapters of many of their books.

Juаn wrote:
With the creation of the The Murty
Classical Library of India it seems things are looking up for us lovers of that
wonderful civilization.

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 Message 11 of 36
20 May 2012 at 6:12pm | IP Logged 
seldnar wrote:
I can't wait for the Murty Library. Not only will it have Sanskrit works but also works
from all the major literary traditions in India. Sheldon Pollock who is the general
editor for the Murty Library was also the general editor for
The Clay Sanskrit Library For
reasons some have said are pedagogical, they have decided to Romanize the Sanskrit
instead of using Devanagari, however. Check out their downloads page to get sample
sections/chapters of many of their books.


I've never purchased a single Clay Sanskrit Library volume because of that hideous romanization. Fittingly, the Murty Classical Library of India will use the corresponding native script for the original-language side of every title. I'll order each of them for certain as they're released.
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 Message 12 of 36
25 May 2012 at 12:25pm | IP Logged 
MarcoDiAngelo wrote:
Well, I don't know for sure how reliable this information is -
if they're lying to me, I'm lying to you. :)


Not that I doubted you, but as I was so excited by this news, I decide to double check
by sending them an email.

I was informed that they are preparing a course for french speakers, but that it
won't be ready before 2013.

Perhaps they have their own wires crossed a little?
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sipes23
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 Message 13 of 36
26 May 2012 at 6:07pm | IP Logged 
dbag wrote:
I was informed that they are preparing a course for french speakers, but that it
won't be ready before 2013.


This might be the motivation I need to learn French.
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alang
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 Message 14 of 36
27 May 2012 at 12:28am | IP Logged 

Which modern language speakers resemble Sanskrit the most?
From what I have gathered it is Tamil. It makes sense to have an educated Tamil speaker do the audio for Sanskrit.

I hope the audio does not have a French accent in it. (Like the old Latin course.)

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Random review
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 Message 15 of 36
27 May 2012 at 1:52am | IP Logged 
alang wrote:

Which modern language speakers resemble Sanskrit the most?
From what I have gathered it is Tamil. It makes sense to have an educated Tamil speaker
do the audio for Sanskrit.

I hope the audio does not have a French accent in it. (Like the old Latin course.)


I'm surprised to hear that as Tamil is a Dravidian language rather than Indo-european.
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alang
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 Message 16 of 36
27 May 2012 at 4:00am | IP Logged 

@Randomreview,

True, but I am actually using what I know of some of the grammar. Compare Hindi grammar to Tamil grammar to Sanskrit, then you will be able to see the similarities.

The languages under Sanskrit in the Indo-European tree: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Romany, Sindhi, Singhalese and Urdu.

I have no idea which resembles Sanskrit the most.

Here is an interesting article about Sanskrit being Indo-European or Dravidian.
Here


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