Complex Morphology Quotes

“If we ever needed any evidence that Sanskrit was slipping away as a first language, this is it. Brahman men were not learning Sanskrit as a first language, or they would have had no problem with the most complex Sanskrit verb morphology. But by this time Sanskrit was something they slipped into briefly, before going back to their 'real' lives.”
― Peggy Mohan , Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia