Languages of India

Post by vram22 » Sat, Jun 08, 2019, 7:23 PM UTC

schoen wrote: post #87

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I knew or could guess about influences from the other three, but didn't really know about influences from Portuguese - interesting. Got any examples? Only one I can think of right now is kaju in Hindi for cashew, which I think may be from Portuguese because I think I've read the Portuguese brought the cashew tree to India [1]. Okay, pao or pav [2] for a particular kind of bread in Mumbai and Maharashtra may be anothe…

Another example is "vindaloo", from "vinho d'alho" ('garlic wine'). Over in Japan, "tempura" is from a Latin reference to the holiday of Lent, as used by Portuguese people in Japan. (At that time the Catholic Portuguese would eat fried fish or fried vegetables.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempura#Etymology (edit: it seems that the original reference is to four different seasons of religious fasts, not just to the…

Googled for this term - Japanese words of Portuguese origin - results are also a bit interesting, e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Japanese_words_of_...

Post by gopkarthik » Wed, Jun 19, 2019, 2:12 PM UTC

peterburkimsher wrote: post #184

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> In the Bay Area you'll find people from various states of India. Doesn't the same thing happen within India itself, due to internal interstate migration? Not everyone who works in (for example) Bangalore's IT industry grew up there.

On a related note, does that make people in (e.g.) Bangalore speak Hindi more than Kannada? In China, the purpose-built electronics city of Shenzhen is full of migrants from other regions, so the local language is Mandarin even though the surrounding Guangdong province speaks Cantonese.

In Hyderabad which is in a neighboring state to Bangalore, most people speak both Telugu and Hindi.

Among white collar workers English is pretty common.

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