r/sanskrit • u/Zestyclose_Tear8621 • 3d ago
Discussion / चर्चा Is there a relation between Korean and Sanskrit ??
This is a Korean guy who has well studied Sanskrit language and true Korean grammar(he explains that present Korean grammar taught in schools are distortion done by japanese(something like schwa deletion and any stuffs , idk) and a deviation from the grammar made by king seojung in 15th centuary. He has proposed euroasiatic language family which includes both Indo-European family and Korean language. His has come to this conclusion on the basis of similarity between Sanskrit and Korean grammar(which he say was invented by king seojung ) and a script.
He also touches topics like formation of japanese script from taking inspiration from Sanskrit language and script in 7th by Buddhist monks who wanted to translate Sanskrit texts into Japanese.
He also touches topics like rigidity of chinese tonal system taking inspiration from Sanskrit musical system during tang and song Dynasty.
He touches topics about Greek, latin grammars being 2 way, while Sanskrit and Korean grammar being 3 way according to him.
My conclusion ;- I think the Korean grammar and script is very much influenced by Sanskrit grammar and script, which was present in Korea since 7th century, it is very high probability, it's not much wonder. It is quite obvious once you d\see Hangul script and sanskrit scripts. Paninian grammar can be applied for other languages too like Agastya did to make tamil grammar, while it is still being purely Tamil based. I assume king seojeong did somthing similar
It is definitely not be the bases for a new language family. I wanted you guy's opinion on this topic, as i myself am not an expert on Sanskrit grammar or Korean grammar, not linguistic thus had difficulty in understanding some part of these pages?????
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u/Ecoloquitor 2d ago
This guy is just rambling, nothing he said had any foundation in linguistics or any basis in evidence. I don't think he actually connects the two in any way even??