Sanskritic
Britishadjective
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of or relating to Sanskrit
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denoting or belonging to those Indic languages that developed directly from Sanskrit, such as Pali, Hindi, Punjabi, and Bengali
noun
Example Sentences
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Whichever way we decide, the population may still be Tamulian; only, in case we make the language Sanskritic, it is Tamulian in the same way as the Cornish are Welsh; i.e.,
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Provinces, Oude, and Behar; the language spoken is Hindi, a pure Sanskritic tongue, on which Hindustani is based, but with large Persian and Arabic admixtures.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
The languages of the south are Dravidian, not Sanskritic.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
All that is certain is, that it is more Sanskritic than the proper Tamul, and more Tamul than the Bengali.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Night, for instance, in the later Sanskrit is nisâ, which is a form peculiarly Sanskritic, and agrees in its derivation neither with nox nor with νὑξ.
From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
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