linguistic help ?

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i want to learn the basics of indian grammar. is this a realistic goal for someone whose prior language training lies in european romance languages ? what's the name the of the alphabet that modern india uses ?

can anyone reccomend any sites ?

― mike (ro)bott, Sunday, 22 September 2002 05:24 (twenty-three years ago)

hmm. study the devanagari script - most stuff is built off that.

if you want to study sanskrit grammar, good fuckin' luck - that's some of the hardest stuff i have evah tried to learn (it makes german grammar look way easy)

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 22 September 2002 05:33 (twenty-three years ago)

it's not offered at my university. i'm interested for personal reasons.

i just want to get some idea of the history and nuts and bolts of the language.

how many characters in davanagari ?

― mike (ro)bott, Sunday, 22 September 2002 05:44 (twenty-three years ago)

german grammar IS easy ;-)

― nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 22 September 2002 06:13 (twenty-three years ago)

ditto what nath said! it's orderly!! < / pitiful cultual cliché > but it is!! < / yer whinin it's still a cliché bub> oh no!! sassy HTML!! OH NO!!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 22 September 2002 08:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I know someone who knows Sanskrit; she claims it is the hardest language to learn, but others have said this of Mandarin, I believe. Is there such a thing as Indian grammar? Do Hindi, Urdu, Bengali et al have a common grammar?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

noam chomsky to thread!!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

then john searle!! FITE!!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

''Do Hindi, Urdu, Bengali et al have a common grammar?''

my father knows Hindi, can't remember exactly but I don't think they do have a common grammar.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 22 September 2002 11:53 (twenty-three years ago)

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