The good news is…we have similar sets of vowels, so you don’t have to learn to make a lot of new sounds you are unfamiliar with. The bad news is, you may be using them in the wrong way when you switch to English. Vowel misuse might result in a change of meaning, since vowels...
Indo-Aryan languages - Characteristics of Old Indo-Aryan texts: The most archaic stage of Old Indo-Aryan is represented by the Sanskrit of the Vedas. Modern philologists generally treat the term veda as a noun meaning ‘knowledge.’ According to traditio
in Hindi, in which a person distinction is not made in the plural,ap kəhã ja rəhe hɛ̃,ap kya kər rəhe hɛ̃, equivalent in meaning to the Gujarati sentences, have the plural formrəhe hɛ̃. Bengali has completely given up any number distinction in verb...
in noncanonical works. The oldest poetic work in this language is Vimala Sūri’sPaumacariya(c.3rd century), a JainRāmāyaṇa. Of other Prākrit dialects mentioned by grammarians and poeticists, Paiśācī (orBhūtabhāṣā, both meaning ‘language of demons’) is noteworthy; it is sa...