Languages of India

Post by yumraj » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 1:03 AM UTC

random314 wrote: post #166

yumraj wrote: post #155

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I'm not qualified to answer that. Me personally, yes I would. A linguist, I can't say, would perhaps depend on each word and when they became part of the language . Hindi is obviously derived from Sanskrit and other languages. However, Hindi and Urdu are quiet different. Give a word and in most cases most people will be able to tell if it's a Hindi word or an Urdu word.

Clearly you are not qualified to answer the questions, but you keep on answering. Linguistically there is no difference between Hindi and Urdu. The primary criterion is grammatical structure which is identical in Hindi and Urdu. Writing systems and choice of nouns don't matter either. Hindi is not obviously derived from Sanskrit. Can a Hindi speaker follow Sanskrit easily or is Punjabi easier? Urdu/Hindi are indirect…

Post by dang » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 1:12 AM UTC

random314 wrote: post #166

yumraj wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not qualified to answer that. Me personally, yes I would. A linguist, I can't say, would perhaps depend on each word and when they became part of the language . Hindi is obviously derived from Sanskrit and other languages. However, Hindi and Urdu are quiet different. Give a word and in most cases most people will be able to tell if it's a Hindi word or an Urdu word.

Clearly you are not qualified to answer the questions, but you keep on answering. Linguistically there is no difference between Hindi and Urdu. The primary criterion is grammatical structure which is identical in Hindi and Urdu. Writing systems and choice of nouns don't matter either. Hindi is not obviously derived from Sanskrit. Can a Hindi speaker follow Sanskrit easily or is Punjabi easier? Urdu/Hindi are indirect…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 1:14 AM UTC

shripadk wrote: post #160

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #145

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> Not about how a language can be misused. The misuse of language is secondary. Again, use of language as a way to signal group identity and block out others is not "misuse" of a language. It is an inherent part of the human language faculty, it is normal usage. I know that in a venue like this who many participants are developers or sympathetic to the software community, there is a tendency to think of human languag…

> It is an inherent part of the human language faculty, it is normal usage If it is normal usage then there is nothing to fear right? This logic makes no sense because I don't see this happening with other regional languages vis-a-vis Hindi. > a danger illustrated by numerous case studies all over the world Are you telling me that Hindi speaking people are deliberately targeting Tamil and Malayalam while giving a fre…

Post by peterburkimsher » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 1:21 AM UTC

jfk13 wrote: post #8

peterburkimsher wrote: post #6

This may be a long shot, but could anybody help me find a Bible in Oriya? Last year I did some research into Unicode PUA characters and discovered some unencoded Taiwanese & Hakka characters. I wrote a proposal to add them to Unicode, and a blog post on Medium (called Hakka news). Now I've done the same for all languages on Bible.com, and I'm trying to compare with printed copies to know what the text should say.

Try https://odia.bible ?

Post by barry-cotter » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 1:58 AM UTC

sterlind wrote: post #107

samsonradu wrote: post #74

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Not quite. As a Romanian speaker I can’t understand more than very basic Italian. Perhaps Spanish is slightly more understandable but still not to a 90% level for sure. I also doubt they understand any Romanian at all.

Romanian kept its case system unlike the other Romance languages by virtue of ending up in the Slavic sprachbund. I'd wager that there are Slavic loanwords as well?