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Raven Silverwings wrote: > 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. Actually, those aren't derived from Sanskrit, but rather from the Prakrits, dialects co-existing with Sanskrit in ancient times. It's unlikely that Sanskrit proper left any descendants, in the same way as the Romance languages are descended from Vulgar Latin, not Classical.