Category: Asia
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How to learn Hiragana in few hours? [Learning Hiragana fast -I]
か [ka, there is a k with broken hand] が [ga, there is a k with broken hand but 2-stroke because ga is a heavier ka]
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Can tea be this hot?
Kokor’s theorem: in linguistic analysis a non-anthropic alternation is not any less important than an anthropic one. Non-anthropic alternation: one artificial alternation eg a machine/systematic/synthetic alternation. Anthropic alternation: phonetic variations due to how people speak from one place to another, one time to another, one poeple to another ..
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How to test words are cognates or not
Hindi: मुझे [mujh-e] and Odia: ମୋତେ [mot-e] are cognates. They mean: to me. Well thats clear to anyone who knows these two languages enough which can take you say 10 or 15 years. Howto know that if you did not know these languages as such but they have been written into Roman. You have to…
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There is one swift way for modernization of Indian languages
A new alphabet system is necessary for India. It now has 21 systems. Why not one? well which will be preferred? Devnagari? NOO NOO NOO. Take two consonants from each you have 21*2 = 42 consonants. Then add symbols of vowels from letters of [kshiti, ap, tej, marut, byom] you may need just two Hiragana…
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How modern is Indian alphabet?
Because in Hiragana vowels are completely different characters than consonants and not symbols [vowels: い あ, consonants: し, じ] and consonant-vowel mixing [S+O, S+A] will create a new character [so, saそ さ]. Thats the idea of vowels and consonants. To keep them separate through an alphabet. This can be easily done to Hindi and any…