I sometimes study languages of India (Bhārat). My primal encounter was with Sanskrit in the mid-1990's. I was interested in Northern Buddhism, as well as Hinduism. Sanskrit is a liturgical language for both religions. I remember the Seattle area, because returning from Japan, I purchased a Sanskrit study book in a bookstore there in 1994. Back in Canada, I encountered Pali, the liturgical language of Southern Buddhism. It was a Thai Buddhist temple, Wat Yanviriya, in East Vancouver, BC. We meditators learned chanting in Pali. Back in Lulu Island, BC, after 2006, I briefly looked at Hindi and Punjabi. I like the Tamil script, and unlike the rest that I have mentioned, Tamil is not Indo-European, but Dravidian, the family of Veddoid Australoids originally, perhaps. Outside of Bhārat, Tamil is popular in Singapore. Tamil people eat with their hands on banana leaves.
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