> meaning a scholar of Sanskrit or something else?
I studied Sanskrit for 5 years in middle school, so I'm familiar with more than the basics.
> Optimist in what sense The one who wants to see a script for PIE discovered :)
> Optimist in what sense The one who wants to see a script for PIE discovered :)
I didn't quite understand. Is this related to what the article says: " The discovery of a civilization of people who lived before the Vedic people upended the story of India. Given that it undermines their claims of indigeneity, proponents of Hindutva — the most mainstream strain of Hindu nationalism — balk at the theory of a pre-Vedic civilization, even as evidence for it accumulates across disciplines, including archaeology, genetics, and linguistics. "
Is Sanskrit and Hindutva and PIE related?
I'm just interested in this from a coherence point of view. I believe that learning a super language like PIE would help me understand a lot about human relation to language and vice versa.
Don't know, don't care about this 40 year old concept as much as I do for a 5000 year proto language.