Talk:𐨧𐨪𐨡

@माधवपंडित I see you found gandhari.org ... —Aryaman ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 13:30, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

@Aryamanarora: True, I just found it and it's a real gem. Could have contributed so many Gandhari entries if the Kharosthi script was more easily available. :/ it's especially difficult to deal with when it comes to diacritics & the virama. -- mādhavpaṇḍit (talk) 15:39, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

@माधवपंडित: Yeah, it's a wonderful site, they even have pictures of coins with Gandhari on them and inscriptions etc. The language is even cooler because of heavy Greek influence (thanks to Alexander) and its use in Buddhist texts that were translated into Chinese. MOD:typing-aids/data/pgd can be made. btw, is Gandhari the ancestor of the Dardic languages? —Aryaman ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 15:45, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

@Aryamanarora: Yep, apart from some Greek loanwords in Sanskrit, this appears to be one of the rare cases of an ancient Indo-Aryan language showing foreign influence. There is some close connection between Gandhari and Dardic, yes. Both preserve the Old Indo-Aryan s-ś-ṣ distinction and both seem to lose the OIA /t/ sound. Gandhari, like Dardic does not distinguish between aspirated and unaspirated stops so I kind of am inclined to believe that Gandhari is the ancestor of some Dardic dialects, having itself descended from Proto-Dardic. -- mādhavpaṇḍit (talk) 15:58, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

@माधवपंडित: Well, no doubt Sanskrit has a huge Dravidian and Munda substrate, but those I guess aren't "foreign" borrowings. The languages at the peripheries of the Indo-Aryan world are really cool. Wikipedia does say that Gandhari is close to Dardic, but not the ancestor of it, so you're right. —Aryaman ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 16:41, 24 September 2017 (UTC)