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From: dasher@netcom.com (Anton Sherwood)
Subject: Re: Fear of a LOJBAN planet
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Organization: That would be telling.
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chakravorty bonnie jean <bchakrav@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> says:
:  I had the distinct impression that Esperanto had also been influenced by
: Sanskritic languages as well. In our Esperanto class there were three Hindi
: speakers (I was the only non-native speaker). All of us made the same
: mistakes and a common comment was _ "just like Hindi!",  "there's a similar
: rule in Hindi - could have been a coincidence, or (and I'm no linguist) it
: could be that the European languages were influenced by Sanskrit.

Well, the languages of Europe and India are related (with exceptions
on both sides), for what little that's worth here.  Zamenhof used
no Hindi _words_ that I'm aware of (mostly French, German and Polish).  
Do you remember what that feature was?
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