It would not surprise me if Sanskrit had some odd features, because Sanskrit as we know it is derived from the language of the ancient hymns.
For about 1000 years before writing starts in India, we have the language developing in the hands of bards singing for ritual reasons to audiences which increasingly could not understand the words. So for many centuries it was evolving under pressures very different from normal language.
Eventually, it regained broader application, but still a an elite language and thus still had unusual evolutionary pressures.
For about 1000 years before writing starts in India, we have the language developing in the hands of bards singing for ritual reasons to audiences which increasingly could not understand the words. So for many centuries it was evolving under pressures very different from normal language.
Eventually, it regained broader application, but still a an elite language and thus still had unusual evolutionary pressures.