The Evolution of Language in India

Mahatvedish: I was actually making many of the sounds that you spoke about and yeah the tongue is hitting my teeth. It's very interesting like you you talk about for example the words darth and darth right and darth is the though and the thought in darth is when you make those sounds your teethYour tongue is touching the top of your teeth but when you say dart which is to scold someone the door and the door your tongue is curled back. They exist only in South Asia as it were. In fact at one point you say that you know gaining retroflex sounds is basically a sign of becoming South Asian. The Sanskrit that was first written down in the Rig

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