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"I try my best to make *all* my posts nice, even when I feel upset" -- Philippe Maquet
Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
Actually, some people (in West) think that Ukrainian and Belorussian are dialects of Russian :roll:
Originally posted by Jayesh Lalwani:
There are some words like Sugar, which is derived from Hindi word Shakhar...
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"I try my best to make *all* my posts nice, even when I feel upset" -- Philippe Maquet
Originally posted by Avi Nash:
"Shakhar" is in turn derived from the Sanskrit "Sharkara"; in fact most of the Indian languages are derived from Sanskrit, which is the mother of all Indian languages.
Originally posted by Rita Moore:
Isn't that amazing how some languages carry words of other languages.
Originally posted by R K Singh:
For linguist Awadhi/Magdhi/Maithli/Bhojpuri/Bihari etc. could be different [/URL].
MH
Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
Interesting. In Russian "sugar" is "SAkhar". ("s" like in "son")
MH
Originally posted by Rita Moore:
Isn't that amazing how some languages carry words of other languages. Everytime I find some word of one of my mother tongues similar to a word of language of different country, I try to imagine how this word ended up in my language. And you can actually feel the layers of history.
Originally posted by Rita Moore:
Hah, that's what all my indin friends tell me.
How about americans (and other nationalities), do you also think I'm misunderstanding "even"?
[ November 10, 2004: Message edited by: Rita Moore ]
Kishore
SCJP, blog
Originally posted by Joe King:
Perhaps its just because I'm English, and the English always have trouble learning other languages, mostly as learning other languages has a very low priority in schools as every one else seems to know English. This also has the side effect that we also learn very little grammar - I finished my entire school education without ever knowing what adverb, pronoun, case, subjective noun and objective noun meant. Its only now as I study another language that I've had to learn these things.
Originally posted by Rita Moore:
Hindi and Urdu (mostly Urdu)
Originally posted by Axel Janssen:
Isn't Hindi indo-european language? Like for example kurdish or nearly all european language including language where Gosha is "short form" of Igor (I learnt 10 minutes ago). And turkish is not indo-european as far as I know.
[ November 12, 2004: Message edited by: Axel Janssen ]
--Venkatraman<br />SCJP 1.4<br /><a href="http://kvrlogs.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blog</a>
Originally posted by venkatraman kandaswamy:
Now there is this history as told to Indians by British is that the Aryans were from Europe and they invaded India - because of 2 reasons. One being that the classical languages had some similarities : sanksrit & latin. The 2nd reason was the mighty British Empire's haughtiness that Europe was the cradle of modern civilization - and they exported everything to the world. They will not accept that perhaps the Aryans migrated to Europe. The history books are being rewritten as we speak.
Thats how we all learnt in our schools and the new generation is also learning the same thing - that Indians were invaded by an external race - which is so not true.
--Venkatraman<br />SCJP 1.4<br /><a href="http://kvrlogs.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blog</a>
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"I try my best to make *all* my posts nice, even when I feel upset" -- Philippe Maquet
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"I try my best to make *all* my posts nice, even when I feel upset" -- Philippe Maquet
Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
Rita: excuse misspellings and if I mix in some Urdu words, I don't know either Urdu or Hindi
Speaking about Urdu or Hindi, I read that it's basically the same language. Here is a good article about it.
Take a Minute, Donate an Hour, Change a Life
http://www.ashanet.org/workanhour/2006/?r=Javaranch_ML&a=81
Originally posted by Jayesh Lalwani:
I am aware of the "Vedic culture originated in India" theory, thank you veddy much. And beleive me, the theory is extremely interesting, but it's just a theory. There is not a bit of evidence that proves that Aryan culture predates the invasion from Europe...
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"I try my best to make *all* my posts nice, even when I feel upset" -- Philippe Maquet
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"I try my best to make *all* my posts nice, even when I feel upset" -- Philippe Maquet
Originally posted by Joe King:
if you can speak Greek, Latin and German you could probably understand most European languages.
Originally posted by Joe King:
because I'm English, and the English always have trouble learning other languages, mostly as learning other languages has a very low priority [...}
Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
Why "american education"? I studied German for .. let's see. 6 years in school and then 2 or 3 years (not sure) at the University. So what?
Originally posted by Axel Janssen:
Don't say that. You should go to Greece and confront those greeks with your own flavour of greece. With the time it might get closer a bit to their Greece.
Originally posted by Rita Moore:
I have friend who is Hindi speaker, he cannot understand Urdu movies, Songs, poems..
Prakash Dwivedi (SCJP2, SCWCD, SCBCD)
"Failure is not when you fall down, Its only when you don't get up again"
Originally posted by Prakash Dwivedi:
He might be Hindi Speaker, but is Hindi his mother tongue? I live in India and i have never met any person whose mother tongue is Hindi and can't understand urdu movies / plays.
MH
Originally posted by Rita Moore:
... With songs (especially gazals) it's worse for some reason.
MH
Originally posted by Prakash Dwivedi:
He might be Hindi Speaker, but is Hindi his mother tongue? I live in India and i have never met any person whose mother tongue is Hindi and can't understand urdu movies / plays.
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Originally posted by Rita Moore:
Yes, it is his mother tongue, I believe he is from Gujrat. Even urdu speakers can tell which words Hindi speaker will understand which not.
Not that he couldn't understand anything, but he had to ask a words translation every min or two. With songs (especially gazals) it's worse for some reason.
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Originally posted by soumya ravindranath:
Rita, are you really Russian
I know Iranians, Moroccans, Russians and many more nationals watch Hindi movies. But you seem to be well versed with more than just Indian movies
Originally posted by achit bhatnager:
A ghazal loving Russian!!! great!!