Sanskrit has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | The word "rook" comes from Sanskrit and means "chariot". | |
| 2. | Samsara is a Sanskrit word that means “the ever turning wheel of life”. | |
| 3. | A daughter language descends from another language - for example, Hindi is a daughter language of Sanskrit. | |
| 4. | Indians know their country by many names: "Bharat" from Sanskrit, "Hindustan" from Persian and "India" from English. | |
| 5. | The Vedas were written in Sanskrit. | |
| 6. | Many Hindus consider Sanskrit to be the language of the gods. | |
| 7. | Therefore, E.T.A. Hoffman asserts: "Music is the most romantic of all arts, for its object is the infinite. It is the mysterious Sanskrit of nature, spoken in tones which fill up the soul of mankind with infinite yearning; and it alone lets us understand the songs of the trees, the flowers, the animals, the stones and the waters." | |
| 8. | Chandra means "moon" in Sanskrit. | |
| 9. | Tom doesn't understand Sanskrit. | |
| 10. | In addition, devanagari is an abugida, used for Sanskrit, Nepali and Hindi, in which the characters contain a final 'a'-sound if another vowel does not change the sound. However, Arabic and Hebrew use separate systems called abjads, in which the vowels are not always indicated. |