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Pinkletskillz t1_j0ti3u4 wrote

I am taking classes in Sanskrit at the moment, and knowing Latin and Ancient Greek (as well as some other PIE languages) is really helping me understand much of the grammar. Those languages as well as Indonesian have been useful for vocabulary too, although you sometimes do need to get into the historical linguistics if you want to recognize the similarities. Above all, it's really a lot of fun studying other languages and seeing the interrelatedness and possibilities of each of them :)

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Yugan-Dali t1_j0tmims wrote

Isn’t Indonesian an Austronesian language?

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Pinkletskillz t1_j0tn7yl wrote

It is, but the vocabulary was influenced by a lot of other languages such as Sanskrit, Dutch, Arabic, Portuguese and English. It's a very interesting mix :)

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Terpomo11 t1_j0tnck9 wrote

Yes, but it has a lot of Sanskrit loanwords.

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