Is sanskrit, Mother of all european language?
Most of the above answers are absurd. I’m in my second year of Sanskrit at university and I’ve read several books on Indo-European linguistics. Sanskrit is NOT the mother of all european languages. However, it is closely related to them. In fact Sanskrit is closer to English and other European languages than it is to Arabic or any other Semitic/Asian language. Sanskrit is spoken in Asia, but it’s origins are with Europe. Sanskrit, along with the other Indo-European languages are descended from a common mother language, proto-Indo-European. The speakers of proto-Indo-European split up around 3000 BC, they were most likely located just north of the black sea. The earliest branch to split off went to Anatolia and their languages evolved into the Anatolian languages such as Hittite and Phrygian. All the Anatolian languages are now extinct (the Turks moved to Anatolia much later in history and are not Indo-European). It is not certain when the other branches broke off, but we do know that t
