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> 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. Well, I learned something new today! :) There was an indian language that I read about that shared the difficultness of Sanskrit, and was about the same antiquity, but, since you know more about, do you think you know about it? Would the language of the Prakrits be that one?