Category: Sanskrit/prakrit/anyakrit
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Whats the meaning of a vowel?
A vowel is a set of Roman letters [aeiou] which are assigned the lesser perceived or spoken voice/phonetics. These are analytical approaches of Language, where a small voice can gradually become very heavy and prominent due to social usage. Once they become so they actually lose their vowel nature from the analytical point of view…
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A day of language analysis [interesting facts go read’em]
Just found a important clue as to why Japanese: anata is YOU. Because in Gandhari?/pali?/prakrit?: atta=self/me.
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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…