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The largest textual corpus of any extant human language Empty The largest textual corpus of any extant human language

Post by Guest Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:41 pm

It’s hard to describe the peculiar pain and pleasure of this language, so strict are its formal rules, so complex the ideas it allows one to formulate, express and analyse. Sanskrit enables thought at a level distinct from ordinary thinking in the languages of everyday life. This is not to say that one cannot have a perfectly ordinary conversation in spoken Sanskrit: one can, of course, and in Sanskrit pedagogical environments, this is normal. But most of the vast literature available in this amazing language is specialised, technical and anything but ordinary. D. Venkat Rao estimates that some 30 million texts in various forms exist in Sanskrit at this time, the largest textual corpus of any extant human language.


http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-story-of-my-sanskrit/article6321759.ece?utm_source=vuukle&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vuukle_referral

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