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south indian accent of Sanskrit?
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    Posted: 30-Sep-2010 at 17:00
is it me or Sanskrit almost sounds like a south indian dravdian language??? i have seen several videos from you tube and it totally sounds like some south indian language. Is this because its mostly south indians who teaching sanskrit these days? or do the words in Sanskrit are similar to Dravidian languages?
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 i think sanskrit was heavily influenced by dravdian languages at some point, many many words in sanskrit have the dravdian sounds i notice. As a baloch from pakistan, i can understand several languages from the region, balochi, urdu, Dari/Farsi( atleast a lot of it) Pashtu, even Punjabi and hindi. And one thing i can clearly see is that Indic and Iranic languages though related are very different sounding, there might be a lot of similar words in the two language group however the sounds and pronunciation is a lot different in the two groups and make it sound two compleletly different language group. (Urdu) actually has kinda bridged that gap because Urdu has roughly 20-25% farsi words, however if you listen to other indic languages which were not influenced by farsi in recent times, they sound very different from Iranic languages and have more dravidian tone to the languages.
 
I personally think eastern european languages are actually more closer to farsi and other iranic languages in sounds and pronunciation of words then lets say most indic languages.
 
The famous indian accent which people make fun off here in the west is actually a dravdian sounding accent, I think Sanskrit has been heavily influenced by that accent over the centuries and words have been changed to sound more dravdian, that (dasa) example is good one
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As a product of the English (British Isles) speaking and settled part of the USA, which is called "The South!", I think I know something about accents?

Maybe it is only the "accent" or "period", or "area", that sets one either against or pro the old script and pronounciation?

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