Ms Mathur noticed the similarities after moving to BBC Radio Wales
"We tend to pronounce everything - all the consonants, all the vowels."
Sonia Mathur
'Apu from the Simpsons holidaying in Swansea' or Pete Postlethwaite?
Ms Mathur noticed the similarities after moving to BBC Radio Wales
"We tend to pronounce everything - all the consonants, all the vowels."
Sonia Mathur
'Apu from the Simpsons holidaying in Swansea' or Pete Postlethwaite?
Maybe Welsh-origin Freepers could help her solve the mystery.
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The IE language, if it was a single language, is lost to history. It is a reconstructed language. Those linguists who are on the Internet have found the Internet to be a most powerful tool for linguistics research since graphics and sound files can be shared instantly and throughout the community. Progress is coming quickly. If Blam posts an image of an ancient starchart or inscription just discovered in China or Egypt, the whole linguistics industry has it immediately, so that if one scholar recognizes something, he can pass the knowledge on to everyone right away. So now the attention of all linguists on the Internet, which is nearly all linguists, have their attention drawn to Welsh-Hindi right now.
I am glad they got to Celtic, even if it is at the end. Celtic was the mother language of Latin, therefor that should make their digging a little easier >). I was surprised with the gals looks - send her to the US.
I am told that Basque is unlike all other languages with a few possible connections to Japanese and that may be mere coincidence. Basque is thought to be the indiginous language of Europe going back to the neolithic.
Wales, as usual, was busy having a really serious economic recession in that period. This resulted in far more than their fair share of young Welsh men and women departing for India to teach English.
The Scots were right behind them!
Educated, English speaking Indian people ever since have spoken with a brogue (for one thing), and I suspect the Welsh provided an "accent" useful in Hindi to indicate "far higher than you're ever gonna' believe social status".
It probably took less than half a century for the Welsh intonations to spread throughout the entire Hindi speaking population.
Note that this happened to the English language itself in the 15th and 16th Centuries. It's called "The Great Vowel Shift". Here a major language change started out with the budding capitalist class in London. You had to talk like them to demonstrate sufficient juju to be a player, FUR SHUR.
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What is strange is that Celtic is from the Centum/Western branch of Indo-European (along with Germanic, Italic) and Hindi is from the Satem/Eastern branch of Indo-European (along with Iranic, Slavic, Greek, Persian, Tocharian languages)