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yes, yes, yes .........
noted down the release date.
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yes, yes, yes .........
noted down the release date.
No stan/istan apparently did not evolve from Sanskrit, but from a common predecessor. stan is the Persian calque (similar words meaning the same thing in related languages) of asthan, and Old Persian and Sanskrit were a bit like the Hindi Urdu of today - almost the same but somewhat different.there are many words that have sanskrit origins like your country's name..
it has stan..which originated from sanskrit sthan which means place..
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for example ?
Oh that would be a long list. But attention needs to be paid that very similar words existed in all Prakrits not only Sanskrit, so we laymen can never be sure if an allegedly Sanskrit word is not actually a sister language word. What we can be relatively sure though is that that word has roots in a language that both Sanskrit and that sister language descended from. I know many Indians generally have difficulty believing there were older languages than Sanskrit in the same linguistic group because of their State's propaganda that Sanskrit is the somehow the mother of all North Indian languages, but that ain't accepted in academic circles. It's sisters died or evolved into Hindi, Marathi, Ori, Awadhi, Bihari, Sindhi, [insert language here] etc. They need to realize there's something theoretical but remarkable called PIE.
thanxs for the explanation, I aint good at how languages evolved, if you can explain the origin of hindi and urdu ? it would be appreciated...
indians here are of the view that indians movies are in hindi which I believe is perfectly understandable by those who know urdu, someone here stated its somewhat slang hindi and another called in hindustani... and that Hindi spoken in National Geography etc are pure hindi ?
Oh that would be a long list. But attention needs to be paid that very similar words existed in all Prakrits not only Sanskrit, so we laymen can never be sure if an allegedly Sanskrit word is not actually a sister language word. What we can be relatively sure though is that that word has roots in a language that both Sanskrit and that sister language descended from. I know many Indians generally have difficulty believing there were older languages than Sanskrit in the same linguistic group because of their State's propaganda that Sanskrit is the somehow the mother of all North Indian languages, but that ain't accepted in academic circles. It's sisters died or evolved into Hindi, Marathi, Ori, Awadhi, Bihari, Sindhi, [insert language here] etc. They need to realize there's something theoretical but remarkable called PIE.
Voilà an example of a mind willfully disabled!Sanskrit is the oldest of All Languages....
Hey I think I know the second one - a train, isn't it?...
I am sure you wont know the meaning of
dhumprapaan dandika
lau pat gaamini
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That is a long and in parts ambiguous history. Can't really be told in a few words. Lot's of foreign spice in an indigenous broth, the exchange going both ways. The commonly-accepted hypothesis is this: Hindi or its earlier forms were supposedly in existence as one or more Prakrits when the last wave of NW'ern invasions made Farsi the rulers' language. But they were a motley crew themselves, their chiefs might have spoken Farsi but the common soldier spoke Mongoloian Turkish. And bear in mind there was a very large local base to those invasions. How do these different people interact - a potpourri of all those languages emerged: Urdu. The meaning of the word Urdu is said to have progressed army then military camp/cantonment (remember 'language of the camp' from schoolbooks) to organized dwelling to even royal court (urdu e mu3allaa - the high/exalted royal military encampment cum court). It is interesting that the equivalent word in English, Horde, paints a picture opposite to fine organisation, what it means to us. But the new language still worked on grammatical principles similar to the existing language, and the Turki and Farsi enrichment happened mostly in vocabulary. Note the words similar and mostly, because there are minority differences in both general rules. For example, one grammatical difference of the top of my mind with Hindi is personal pronouns ye, ya, wo/vo, wa/va versus only ye and wo in Urdu, while on the vocabulary side charchaa has different genders and different meanings, I'm not too sure of its Hindi meaning so not translating. Let's take another example - khulaaSa. Means summary in Urdu but apparently conversation, deliberation in Hindi. Getting on with the topic, yes Hindi was somewhat lost in popular culture because of the need of interaction with the Turkic rulers, but is now coming back in a big way. Which is problematic too, because Hindi is officially one language but in reality many Hindi-speakers will have difficulty understand each other completely, and standardizing one Hindi is going to take this linguistic diversity away.thanxs for the explanation, I aint good at how languages evolved, if you can explain the origin of hindi and urdu ? it would be appreciated...
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Hey I think I know the second one - a train, isn't it?
Voilà an example of a mind willfully disabled!
yeah
lau is fire
gaamini is something that moves
so the name derives from something that moves on fire though literally name does not make much sense in the world today but in those days it did had.... dhumrapaan is smoking dhumra is smoke....
I can bet my car that that monstrosity will never catch on! When you invent a word that is longer than many simple sentences in that language, you're doing it wrong!...
table tennis is called :"Kasht prakoshtake de tappa tam le tappa tam"
meaning "lakdi ke table par....de tappa tam le tappa tam"!!