I'm thinking I should learn an ancient language
Latin seems fun but it's too basic b-word to learn (at least as my first ancient language) and I already had to do some grammar classes on highschool so it's also too easy
I'm thinking maybe ancient hebrew is the least studies out of the big 3 of Latin Greek and Hebrew
But what are the other options/what will make me stand out the most as the cool esoteric intellectual I am
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Sanskrit. All the others are too mainstream or just too irrelevant to the modern world. How different is ancient hebrew from nu hebrew? They used to teach greek and latin in public schools before they became majority brown
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Sanskrit isn't really non-mainstream especially if you want to understand Buddhism.
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In what way is sanskrit "relevant" to the modern world?
All dead languages are useless, people learn them either to become academics or as a passion hobby. Sanskrit is about as relevant as latin and classical greek.
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It's far less relevant than greek or latin. It also isn't a made up reconstructed language like PIE and is the second oldest attested IE language with a much larger corpus than hittite.
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Sanskrit has Indian texts, Latin and Greek have med towelboy books. Easy choice really.
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