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Originally Posted by Ramrod
My first language, Latvian is supposed to be derived from Sanskrit.
I find it sad how easy it is to forget languages. I have been reasonably fluent in Africaans, Zulu and German but not anymore  |
I'd say that Latvian like, Sanskrit, has a common ancestor in Indo-European, but not that Latvian descended from Sanskrit. Languages descended from Sanskrit are the modern-day languages of northern India.
PS An almost totally irrelevant aside. When I was a young lad, the inhabitants of Latvia were known, in English, as Letts and the corresponding adjective was Lettish. No doubt such irregular names became too confusing and someone decided to regularise them.