Both Vedic Sanskrit and Mycenaean Greek are the same age. Of course there may have been mutual influences as languages take cognates from each other.

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wbl 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There was extremely limited contact between them until thousands of years later, and no real cultural exchange until the era of exploration.

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mdp2021 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But the point is in the strength of said relations in view of understanding the underlying roots in current languages.

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arjie 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Is that the point? Seems like Greek or Latin are more useful to an English speaker for familiarity, and Sinitic ones for foreign-ness. Sanskrit occupies a space that is less useful for a Western audience as a sibling language to English in a valley of novelty and similarity.

	▲	mdp2021 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Seems like Greek or Latin are more useful to an English speaker for familiarity It is that consideration of the several implementations (so, include Sanskrit - it augments the material importantly) clarifies the cones of meanings in the roots.