Q: Sanskrit Alphabetical Order

[Anand Venkt Raman]

thompson at jlc.net (George Thompson) wrote:

>that this sort of linguistic sophistication does not  appear to be an
>inheritance from IE, nor a borrowing from Dravidian grammarians [as far as
>I know], but is attributable directly to the Snaskrit grammarians

This is probably not fully correct as the Dravidian influence on
Sanskrit was felt much earlier on than the first grammatical works in
it.  The most conspicuous pointer to it is the presence of retroflex
stops in Sanskrit which is not found in other IE languages, but is
found in Dravidian.

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