Alphabe Thursday … K is for Ka …
August 2, 2012
Ka is the first letter of the Sanskrit alphabet. Sanskrit is the classical language of India; a member of the Indo-European family of languages including English, Welsh Latin and Greek.It is usually written and printed in a script called Devanagari which means ‘script of the gods.’ which can be traced back to the fourth century BC.
Ka is also the first letter of the Tibetan Alphabet. This is one of many similarities between the two languages. These suggests that although Tibetan was member Tibeto-Burman group of languages and possibly a distant cousin of Chinese it was adapted from Sanskrit. In the seventh century a writing system was introduced in the monasteries of Tibet for the first translations of Buddhist texts.
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Thank you for extending my knowledge. This is really interesting as language is key for all us humans isn’t it!
With these basic sounds; ka,ma, da etc. it is almost pre-human and more fascinating … xx
i love to learn more about language and the developement of it. the history of words is a fascinating thing for me. thanks for sharing.
It is a joy ..xx
I feel a little brainier. The key word here is “little”. Thanks for sharing your ‘K’ post!
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fascinating! thanks for the brief lesson — would love to read more.
They are very interesting especially the Sanskrit .
Nice quick lesson. Very interesting and thank you for deciding to share this today.
Thanks for teaching me something I didn’t know. Much appreciated!
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I was glad of the opportunity to share xx
Interesting! Thanks for sharing. Great “K” post
Thanks for reading it and a kind reply
This was quite fascinating.
I love all the new things I learn while reading through the weekly links!
This was a really interesting share!
Thank you!
A+
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