18 Jun
2026
18 Jun
'26
10:19 a.m.
On Thu, 2026-06-18 at 12:53 -0400, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
Yes, that's what I thought too. And then I found
Sanskrit on a list
of 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.
I once read that more than 400 languages are spoken in India. And they
have four official languages, that is, languages in which government
documents can be written: Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, and English. Or
"Indish" as some call it. For example (say this with a Hindi accent):
"Only in India to you take your car to the body shop to have it
dented."