[Wilhelm Tell]

I haven't given serious study to anything as exotic as Sanskrit, but how languages evolved has long been an interest of mine. Since the Indo-European languages are related, the study of one can pay off in interesting ways. For example, I recently "discovered" the Latvian language. I can read Russian and German and was aware of the Baltic languages but had not studied them. I recently obtained a Bible in Latvian, and immediately saw the "Russian" grammar all over the place! Many of the words have more or less similar counterparts in Russian, German (and Swedish) and Latin. The more Latvian I read, the more of it "clicks" in my mind. What did not "click" was when I have tried to read a language like Hungarian that is from a different framework. I was unable to guess at the meaning of the words or the sentence structure in Hungarian -- I was completely in unfamiliar territory.

[Verginius Rufus]

Lithuanian is supposed to be the most old-fashioned of all the Indo-European languages, at least those which are still spoken, and I think Latvian and Lithuanian are fairly close (they are both labeled as Baltic languages).

[servantoftheservant]

I believe the Hungarian and Finnish languages, along with Gypsy dialects have Sanskrit as common relations.

[Pyro7480]

Hungarian is one of the few European languages that ISN'T in the Indo-European language group.