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| View Poll Results: Your (Indo-European) mothertongue is: | |||
| Indo-Iranian |
   
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1 | 3.57% |
| Greek |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Italic |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Celtic |
  
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1 | 3.57% |
| Germanic |
  
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23 | 82.14% |
| Armenian |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Baltic |
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0 | 0% |
| Slavic |
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3 | 10.71% |
| Albanian |
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0 | 0% |
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02-02-2006, 11:51 AM
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Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
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My first language was Gujarati, Indo-Aryan and spoken in the Western Indian state of Gujarat. Most emigrants to Britain, the USA and Australia from India were Gujarati.
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02-02-2006, 11:57 AM
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The Pearl, The Lily Maid
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: In my luxury Barrow, snuggled up in a pile of satin pillows, eating fresh fruit.
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question for the vertically challenged individual: how many different languages are spoken in India (approx.)? and are they truly independent languages, or dialectal versions of a mother-tongue?
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02-21-2006, 12:13 PM
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Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
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While the languages are all based on a common tongue, Sanskrit, they are all independent, not dialects. Sanskrit is often compared to Latin; it's a tongue little used save in religion, and not spoken as a first language any more. All the languages in India are, I presume, quite similar. When I listen to Hindi, I can make out odd words, so the relationship makes me think of Dutch and German. I cannot speak for the other 16 languages though. I believe most of them have individual scripts, too. Gujarati does, anyway. |
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