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Is there a correlation between number of words and knowledge?
Sanskrit has 1000X more words than any other language.
Sanskrit has 1000X more words than any other language.
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As the root of the proto-indo-European language tree I thought all of our European languages came from it but the Sanskrit Heritage Dictionary has around 180k words, so it might be something smaller like token representations counting inter-combinations of symbols. If you count compound words and infleccted forms then you could probably say Sanskrit has maybe millions of words but probably not billions.. Looks like a language model hallucination to me :)
Cute scholarly noise. Here is the link https://www.thehitavada.com/Encyc/2021/8/22/The-status-and-place-of-Sanskrit-language-in-modern-India.amp.html. What a dictionary has is not all for Sanskrit especially because the effort has been always siloed. Anyways, the logic of compunding and infliction can render most of the dictionaries to a few pages.
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