18 Jun
2026
18 Jun
'26
9:54 a.m.
Cos4?
On Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 11:53 a.m. Bill Degnan via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
languages spoken in India today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speaker…
-- about 25k speakers of Sanskrit. Blew my mind.
A computer language is not exactly a native spoken language, but you
can apply this test pretty accurately. For example, Sanskrit. We do
have access to writings in Sanskrit today, it has been preserved, but
there is no country where Sanskrit is spoken natively. It's a dead
language but not a lost language.
Yes, that's what I thought too. And then I found Sanskrit on a list of
paul
crap...bad example. How about Sumerian then? lol