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> > It belongs to the same branch as Sanskrit, yes - but how many languages > > are in fact descended from Sanskrit (or Vedic)? > > > > About the same as are descended from Classical Latin, and for much the > same reasons. I wouldn't know the exact number of them, but let's see... Hindi, Punjabi, Romani, Telugu, Tamil, and Urdu... that's about what I can think majorly. There's probably more dialects than that, but that's what I can think with what I can remember. Like Latin, Sanskrit was a language of the educated, and it broke down into dialects, like the Romance ones.