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It's the same in Hindi. There are words that most people don't even know the Hindi equivalent for. Even if they do, they use the English version, regardless of
by puranjay 8y ago
It's the same in Hindi. There are words that most people don't even know the Hindi equivalent for. Even if they do, they use the English version, regardless of their education level. Examples would be "car" and "phone".
Language proliferation in the entire north-west belt from India to Iran is really interesting. Lots of Persian words in every language from Dari to Urdu to Hindi. "Zameenee" is ground in Dari, "Zameen" is ground in Urdu, which is used in every day Hindi as well
- walrus01 8y agoThe more one studies the history of the Mughal empire, it's obvious how the Persian language of the court influenced things in the region for a long, long time. The relatively brief Sikh empire also made extensive use of Persian. https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=persian+language+mughal+empire&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=per...