Acquiring both language form (knowledge about organizing sounds, words and sentences) and content (meaning) knowledge are important for language learning (Lahey, 1988). Hence, language teaching may focus on either or both of these, as the target language may be the subject (teaching proper oral...
Substantially different systems of communication that may impede but do not prevent mutual comprehension are calleddialectsof a language. In order to describe in detail the actual different language patterns of individuals, the termidiolect,meaningthe habits of expression of a single person, has been ...
Devanagari, script used to write the Sanskrit, Prakrit, Hindi, Marathi, Konkani, and Nepali languages, developed from the North Indian monumental script known as Gupta and ultimately from the Brahmi alphabet, from which all modern Indian writing systems are derived. In use from the 7th century ...
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...
in which the comparativeāḍhya-taraoccursconstruedwith the ablative form, corresponds a Hindi sentenceye un-se əmīr hɛ̃, in which no comparative affix is used—literally, “These are rich from (i.e.,in comparison with) those.” Comparable constructions with a postposition meaning ...