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> You easy almost all languages have their roots from Sanskrit. The grammar rules for German and Finnish, for example, are a subset of Sanskrit.

Your claims are a subset of the “everything comes from India” school of BSology.[1]

German is related to Sanskrit but does not descend from it.[2] Finnish belongs to a different language family entirely.[3]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5QgeCL1fs

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IndoEuropeanTree.svg

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages



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