loṭ

No not like the Bible character

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I want to pronounce ऋ properly, but I dont wanna overdo it else I think im saying ॠ, but I dont know what either sound like. How do you even make a dīrgha vowel sound here???

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Schnapp is a fucking long word with a single syllable

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Theorizing that सुनना is a tadbhava from शृ meaning “to hear”

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Wait so apparently Panjabi comes from Paishachi prakrit and not Shauraseni???

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Whadyu mean रिक्शा comes from Japanese???

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Accidentally found out a Sanskrit word for “penis” is शिश्न from root श्नथ् meaning “to pierce”

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Thinking about ह्रस्व and according to wiktionary (link) it comes from ह्रस् + व which is interesting because I would expect that to became ह्रः + व which would then become ह्रोव

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Love finding fun easy-to-say phrases

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Really wish Devanagari had a cursive. It takes too long to write simple syllables

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I cant seem to figure out why elephants are called सामज in Sanskrit. The only result I get is the kriti Samaja Varagamana, praising Lord Rama’s gait as that like an elephant (which is what led me on this search in the first place)

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I love realizing that a word I use in Hindi is actually a tadbhava. Like सकना “to can” comes from the root शक् meaning “can” and makes words like शक्ति “capability,” “power,” or “potential to can”

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mfw sanskrit grammarians invented a letter for a sound that did not and still does not exist bc idfk they wanted to?? (the canon reason is that pāṇini wanted to make all the vowels and semivowels have a long variant for his perfect grammar. how cute)

letter is "Ḹ" / "ḹ" (IAST), "L̥̄" / "l̥̄" (ISO 15919) or "ॡ" (Devanāgarī), pronounced /l̩ː/ (long retroflex "l" sound) or apparently (probably roughly) "/lrĭ/" (???alveolar l and trill and short i idk) conforming to modern vedic sanskrit pronunciation if you're wondering

Wikipedia: "The "Ḹ" sign was used to modify a consonant's value ×10^8" WHYY WHY DID ANCIENT INDIANS LOVE MATHS SO MUCH IT KILLS THE RELATABILITY i just want my 84,000s so i can go "haha it's like the word million in english" i don't need this shit

i want to share the linguistics hyperfixation guys not the maths one you really don't need to mix the two

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Haha I actually like that grammarians did that (please dont hate me 😭) I like the uniformity, and sixteen is a nice number; its four times four and makes a nice square

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Ultimately, the main reason I wanna learn Sanskrit is so that I can break the rules. Im gonna play with my dolls in a way that will bug people, and they can do nothing about it. But to do that, I ned to learn how to play properly

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For example, I hate grammatical gender. Why do inanimate objects have gender? When I become fluent, everything w/o sentience gets the neuter gender by default. Using the traditional gender is optional.

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Okay so I think the term im looking for is Apabhramsha

(Wikipedia link)

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can someone explain the difference between ण्वुल् and ल्युट् to me? Maybe it's that in Hindi the distinctions eroded and their meanings merged, but कारक and कारण mean the same thing to me.

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Just occured to me I posted this on my main oops

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Thinking about how my in my seventh grade, the teacher said that numbers can be adjectives. Example: Five fiddles. Five describes the fiddles in their quantity. I bring this up because in Sanskrit, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and numerals are all lumped into one category. Sanskrit scholars take it to the extremes.

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Ik that ill have better luck finding community on reddit (im pretty sure its already established) but I refuse to go there. I wanna find people interested in languages here and here only

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Ultimately, the main reason I wanna learn Sanskrit is so that I can break the rules. Im gonna play with my dolls in a way that will bug people, and they can do nothing about it. But to do that, I ned to learn how to play properly

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For example, I hate grammatical gender. Why do inanimate objects have gender? When I become fluent, everything w/o sentience gets the neuter gender by default. Using the traditional gender is optional.