Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
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features of the 2nd millennium BC.
in phonetics the turn of d, dh into l, lh between
vowels;
in morphology: very large number of exceptions in
the language, archaisms. The verb uses the
subjunctive and injunctive moods (memorative - the
special mood with the meaning of mentioning the
action), the pluperfect which are absent in Sanskrit.
In Vedas, particles and conjunctions play an
important role, and the word order is totally free.
As Vedic is the closest to the Iranian languages, the
language is quite similar to Avestan, and some
parallel forms and combinations are amazing.
The Sanskrit language
From http://www.geocities.com/indoeurop/tree/indo/sanskrit.html
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Geography
Nominal
Morphology
Indic (with Hindi, Marathi etc.), Old Indic (with Vedic
and Sanskrit)
One of the main Old Indic languages, Sanskrit is not
the direct descendant of Vedic, as some may suppose.
If Vedic was used only as a dialect of North-Western
India, Sanskrit was born in the north, in the Gang
valley, and was used at the time when Vedic still
existed. Sanskrit early became the language of the
literature and fell out of use as a colloquial tongue. It
was proclaimed a divine language in India, and all
classical works in science, verse or history were
written only in this language.
Nouns have eight cases, all like in Proto-Indo-
European, three genders and three numbers. The verb
is characterized by a complicated system of moods and
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