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From: rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen)
Subject: Re: roots of lithuanian language
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In article <aldersonDAA3J2.88J@netcom.com> alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III) writes:
>Sanskrit has been artificially preserved, like Latin in the Roman Catholic
>church, for over 2000 years.  The claims made for mutual comprehension of
>Lithuanian and Sanskrit in the 19th century were an excess of enthusiasm in
>circles in which there were racial and political agendas as much as linguistic
>ones.
Are examples available, of small sentences in Lithuanian and Sanskrit, showing 
how similar of different they are, so we can judge for ourselves?
