Re: [ontolog-forum] example of Science and Indian Scripture blog..

[Pavithra <pavithra_kenjige@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Dr. Sowa.  That will help me!

 

This is just an example of how language arts are quite advanced in Indan subcontinent as in Europe!

 

India has 22 official languages!  Each state is allowed to have an official language! Hindi is the national language! India also has 1.2 B people!

 

   In addition many european languages are tought in schools and language institutes.   English is one of the medium of languages available for studies.   

But British do not take responsibilities for Indian English.     Yet UN has not included any of the indian languages as an official language!  

 

Now that there is so much of translation available online, it should be so much of a problem!

 

Thanks

Pavithra

 

 

--- On Tue, 10/13/09, John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] example of Science and Indian Scripture blog..
To: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 7:07 PM

Pavithra,

The Indo-European language family was the first major family to be
discovered.  Following is a web site in India that describes the
report by William Jones in 1786 that noted the strong similarities
between Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit:

    http://www.hinduwebsite.com/general/sanskrit_links.asp

These Indo-European family is extremely well established, and the
Sanskrit is much more closely related to Latin and Greek than to
the Dravidian languages.  Cultural similarities are less conclusive
because there has been obvious borrowing between them for thousands
of years.  Much more critical linguistically are the roots and the
endings on nouns and verbs.

There are hundreds of examples such as the following

'dva' in Sanskrit, 'dva' in Russian, 'duo' in Latin, 'two' in English.

The Russian linguists who coined the term Nostratic claim that the
Dravidian languages are sufficiently similar to the Indo-European
family to be classified with them in the Nostratic superfamily.

Following is an article about Nostratic:

    http://popgen.well.ox.ac.uk/eurasia/htdocs/nostratic.html

You can find many more hits by typing the two words 'Dravidian'
and 'Nostratic' to Google.

John




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