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"Indo-European Language and Culture" is a great read. I grok ~2/3 of it, which is a tribute to his writing. I love it when I recognise relationships to I.E. languages I know without them being stated out. The highlighted structure in the left image feels very Hindi. On the right That only #Hindi & other Indic languages preserve these consonants from a language spoken ~4 millennia ago takes "getting in touch with my roots" to a whole new level.😁
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text from Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction by Benjamin W. Fortson, as follows

Thus instead of saying "The gods who gave us riches can take them away", speakers of these languages would have said literally, "Which gods gave us riches, they/those gods can take them away"

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text from Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction by Benjamin W. Fortson, as follows:

The voiced aspirates can also be written with superscript h’s (bh gh etc.); they were voiced stops followed by a puff of breath or a brief period of breathy voice (the latter technically called murmur). Indic (with its main ancient representative Sanskrit) is the only subbranch of the family that preserved them intact into the historical period; they are still found in many modern languages descended from Sanskrit, such as Hindi and Bengali.

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I'm #Reading Laura Spinney's "Proton" and have 2 questions for any L1 or L2 #Hindi speakers who see this:

First, what word or words come to mind first for you if translating the English word "man" into Hindi?

Second, how would you translate "बीर" (or possibly "वीर")?
#LanguageLearning

I will explain why I ask if I get any responses. I don't want to influence the answers 😁
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Indian movie posters in Devanagari, Latin, Telugu, and Bengali scripts:
Samaj Ko Badal Dalo | समाज को बदल डालो, 1970
Bhakta Prahlāda | భక్త ప్రహ్లాద, 1967
Kābuli’ōẏālā | কাবুলিওয়ালা, 1957

Read about this collection and see more posters in @tanyatypes’ 2022 article: https://letterformarchive.org/news/indian-movie-posters/

#Lettering #India #Bollywood #MoviePosters #Telugu #Hindi #Bangali