Re: Why Sanskrit never became a common man's language?
I thought Sanskrit was a spoken langauge about 3 thousand years ago, and over time most north Indian languages evolved from Sanskrit. Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language, so has roots in Sanskrit. Although the sentence structure is Sanskrit, the vocabulary is Arabic and Farsi, with a few words of Sanskrit like purana. Arabic only became the spoken language 1,700 years ago, so is a much newer language.