| > Please read about the alphabet system of Sanskrit and various modern languages that derives from Sanskrit The Sanskrit alphabet is very elegant indeed, but Sanskrit doesn't have a writing system. None of the various scripts used to encode Sanskrit (Siddham, Lantsa, Devanagari, Kharoshti etc.) are, in my opinion, anywhere near as well-structured as the Sanskrit alphabet. >In addition to that, sanskrit alphabets encompasses almost every possible consonant and vowel sounds that a human can generate. That's nowhere near true; listen to some languages like Xhosa, or even a tonal language like Chinese, and try to transliterate them using Sanskrit. >Sanskrit grammar is again another beautiful and well thought creation that is considered the best grammar to be used for scientific work. Sanskrit grammar is highly regular, which is why it is used in some AI applications, but there's no reason to think it is "the best grammar to be used for scientific work." And, as structured as Sanskrit grammar is, it still opens itself up to ambiguities-- it is nowhere near as clean as an artificial language would be. Sanskrit is a great language, but there's no need to oversell it. |
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