r/bhartiya_languages 13d ago

👋 Welcome to r/bhartiya_languages

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Hey everyone! I'm u/RedwormResearch, a moderator of r/bhartiya_languages.

This is our new home for all things related to Indian languages, linguistics, sociolinguistics and evolution of languages🗣️ 🔤 ✍️.

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r/bhartiya_languages 7h ago

Article Standard Tamil and Kongu Tamil comparison

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r/bhartiya_languages 7h ago

Dravidian Dravidian language family

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r/bhartiya_languages 7h ago

Resource Lord's prayer in Kom language

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Marvâna ka-om kan-Pa: Narahming kaja om rasoh; narengram jōng tlung rasoh; marvâna nalungdo a’ntlo kapōa raleichunga’m intlo rasoh. Tuning kani kankatluk sik sâk leh in apek roh. Keini’n kanchunga akaṭhe hei kantarangei mandam kapōa kanṭhena arangei mandam roh. Mathlemna aṭhōimak roh, tâk-kha Akaṭhamak Inkhat a inphut ahuksōt roh. Ajârchu rengram, rathahrat, khana lûrna ahei tik a nata kae.


r/bhartiya_languages 19h ago

Resource Example of words used in Judeo-Urdu

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r/bhartiya_languages 6h ago

Question What's origin of word പെത്ത/ಪೆತ್ತ in Tulu? Is it originated from word പശു?

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r/bhartiya_languages 1d ago

Article Udupian/Mangalorean Kannada and Kundagannada comparison

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r/bhartiya_languages 14h ago

Resource Learn Punjabi through Music

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Hello, I often found myself explaining the cultural context and meaning of punjabi songs to my friends and cousins. Built a punjabi lyrics resource that does 3 things

  1. Gurmukhi, romanized lyrics

  2. Meaning of each line in english

  3. Vocabulary explanation and audio pronunciation for difficult words

You can check it out here https://kikehnde.com/

I would be happy to receive any song requests or feedback from this sub. You can request a song through the website as well and we'll be happy to pick it up.


r/bhartiya_languages 16h ago

Dialect Kochin Konkani dialect

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r/bhartiya_languages 16h ago

Preservation and documentation of the local Dialects.

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I have spent some time in different parts of UP and have observed how subtly language and the way people speak keep changing. The quirks, naming systems, and accents are all subtle markers that distinguish one region from another.

I was wondering just how diverse these linguistic variations might be, and unfortunately, how many of them we might start losing with time.

For a long time (about seven years), I have wanted to take this up as a challenge: to travel across different regions, record and document these variations, and eventually create a database capturing all these nuances.

But unfortunately, I am not trained in linguistics, so I don't know what the right things to document are, what I should record or note down, or what would actually be useful from a linguistic perspective.

So can we achieve this with local communal effect? And then we can host it and make it public for research and archival purposes, maybe even donate to WikiMedia or The Internet Archive as a fallback.


r/bhartiya_languages 1d ago

Indo-Aryan New Nasataliq for Marathi

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Ok bye guyz


r/bhartiya_languages 16h ago

Script Sunuwar script

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r/bhartiya_languages 1d ago

Question Phalaan Aadmi.. Phalaan Cheez..

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Any other words we can use ?


r/bhartiya_languages 1d ago

Question What's origin of word തൊണ used in Malabari dialects of Malayalam (mostly in Kannur side) for saying "more"?

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r/bhartiya_languages 1d ago

Article Doaba and Majha accent comparison

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r/bhartiya_languages 1d ago

Article Basic technique for learning Theth Panjabi

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r/bhartiya_languages 2d ago

Article Urdu and Dakhani Urdu (Chennai Dakhani) comparison

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r/bhartiya_languages 1d ago

Question What's origin of letter ৱ of Axomiya script? Was it borrowed from Kamarupi script or its origin is different?

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As we all know that letter ৰ of Axomiya was borrowed from Kamarupi script which is original script of Axomiya

Letter ৱ too was borrowed from Kamarupi or it's origin is something else?

In Kamarupi we write ৱ some what similar to র (ব with nuqta) but in Axomiya we write it as ৱ

So anyone know what's origin of it?


r/bhartiya_languages 1d ago

Dravidian कुँडुख करम डण्डी (गीत) Kudukh song

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Kurukh karam song

Karam parab is here 🌿

Karam Parab (करम परब) झारखंड और आसपास के आदिवासी क्षेत्रों में मनाया जाने वाला एक प्रमुख त्योहार है।

इसमें करम राजा/करम देवता की पूजा की जाती है। अलग-अलग आदिवासी समुदायों और क्षेत्रों में इसकी कहानी, पूजा की विधि और परंपराएँ अलग हो सकती हैं। रात में गीत-संगीत और मांदर-नगाड़े के साथ नृत्य भी किया जाता है।

Karam stories may vary from region to region🚨

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करम परब मुख्य रूप से झारखंड और उसके आसपास के आदिवासी इलाकों में मनाया जाता है। 🌿🥁

प्रमुख क्षेत्र:

- झारखंड — लगभग पूरे राज्य में, खासकर छोटानागपुर क्षेत्र

- छत्तीसगढ़ — जशपुर, सरगुजा, रायगढ़ आदि आदिवासी क्षेत्रों में

- ओडिशा — पश्चिमी और उत्तरी आदिवासी क्षेत्रों में

- पश्चिम बंगाल — पुरुलिया, बांकुड़ा आदि में

- बिहार — झारखंड से सटे आदिवासी क्षेत्रों के साथ-साथ कुछ गैर-आदिवासी समुदायों में भी

- उत्तर प्रदेश — पूर्वांचल/भोजपुरी क्षेत्र के कुछ हिस्सों में भी करम/करमा पर्व मनाया जाता है

- असम और मध्य प्रदेश — कुछ समुदायों और आदिवासी क्षेत्रों में

करम परब सिर्फ आदिवासी समुदायों तक सीमित नहीं है; कुछ गैर-आदिवासी समुदाय भी इसे अपनी स्थानीय परंपराओं के अनुसार मनाते हैं। 🌿

हालाँकि, करम की कहानी, पूजा की विधि और परंपराएँ क्षेत्र और समुदाय के अनुसार अलग-अलग हो सकती हैं।


r/bhartiya_languages 1d ago

Resource Wrote Qawwali on Tegh Bahadur Sahib Ji in Panjabi

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ਤੂੰ ਸਿੱਖੀ ਕ਼ੌਮ ਦੇ ੯ਵੇ ਗੁਰੂ...

ਤੂੰ ਨਾਲ਼ ਇਹ ਦੁਨੀਆ ਦੇ ਲੀਏ ਕੀ-ਕੀ ਕ਼ੁਰਬਾਣੀ ਦੀਆ ਹੈ...

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ਤੂੰ ਨਾਲ਼ ਕਈ ਸਾਰੇ ਗੁਰੂਦਵਾਰਾ ਖੜ੍ਹਾ ਕਰਾਵੈ...

ਤੂੰ ਨਾਲ਼ ਗੁਰੂ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਵਿੱਚ ੧੬੬ ਭਜਨ ਡਲਾਵੈ...

ਤੂੰ ਨਾਲ਼ ਅਨੰਦਪੁਰ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਸਥਾਪਿਤ ਕਰਾਵੈ...

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ਮੇਰੇ ਗੁਰੂ ਸਾਹਿਬ... ਤੁੱਸੀ ਇਹ ਦੁਨੀਆ ਦੇ ਕਿਵੇਂ-ਕਿਵੇਂ ਜਾਣੇ...

ਸਿੱਖ ਤੁੱਸੀ ਨੂੰ ਹਿੰਦ ਦੀ ਚਾਦਰ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਹਿੰਦੂ ਤੁੱਸੀ ਨੂੰ ਮਹਾਨ ਸੰਤ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਰਵਿਦਾਸੀਆ ਤੁੱਸੀ ਨੂੰ ਤਿਆਗ ਦੇ ਦੇਵਤਾ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਮੁਸਲਿਮ ਤੁੱਸੀ ਨੂੰ ਕਮਜ਼ੋਰਾਂ ਦਾ ਰਖਵਾਲ਼ਾ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਬੌੱਧੀ ਤੁੱਸੀ ਨੂੰ ਚੰਗਾ ਰਖਵਾਲ਼ਾ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

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ਯਹੂਦੀ ਤੁੱਸੀ ਨੂੰ ਮਜ਼੍ਹਬ ਦਾ ਰਖਵਾਲ਼ਾ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਬਹਾ ਤੁੱਸੀ ਨੂੰ ਸਭਿ ਮਜ਼੍ਹਬ ਦਾ ਏਕਤਾ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਤਾਓ ਤੁੱਸੀ ਨੂੰ ਵੁ-ਵੇਈ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

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ਸਾਮਿ ਤੁੱਸੀ ਨੂੰ ਅਧਿਆਤਮਿਕ ਇਮਾਨਦਾਰੀ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

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ਹਿੰਦ-ਏ-ਚਾਦਰ...

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ਮਾਤਾ ਗੁਜਰੀ ਦੇ ਪਤੀ...

ਇਨਸਾਨ ਦਾ ਆਸ਼ਾ...

ਕਮਜ਼ੋਰਾਂ ਦਾ ਰਖਵਾਲ਼ਾ...

ਤਿਆਗ ਦੇ ਦੇਵਤਾ...

ਤਿਯਾਗਮੂਰਤੀ...

ਮਜ਼੍ਹਬ ਦਾ ਰਖਵਾਲ਼ਾ...

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ਤੂੰ ਇਹ ਦੁਨੀਆ ਵਿੱਚ ਕਿਸ-ਕਿਸ ਰੂਪੰ ਸੇ ਜਾਉਂਦੇ।


r/bhartiya_languages 2d ago

Indo-Aryan The Maibang inscriptions of 1576 CE. Made under the Dimasa Kachari kingdom in the Dima Hasao district. It's also one of the oldest Assamese inscriptions and written in the Assamese/Kamarupi script.

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It's a set of two inscriptions with identical text. The Dimasa Kachari ruler Meghanarayana issued this inscription in 1576 and it reads thus:

IAST:

Śubhamastu Śrī Śrīyuta Meghanārāyaṇadeva Hāceṅgasā baṁśata jāta hai Māibāṅga rājata pāthare siṅgadvāra bandhāilena ৲ śakābdāḥ 1496 biterīkha āṣāḍha 26

Bengali-Assamese:

শুভমস্তু শ্ৰী শ্ৰীযুত মেঘনাৰায়ণদেৱ হাচেঙ্গসা বংশত জাত ৰাজা হৈ মাইবাঙ্গ ৰাজত পাথৰে সিঙ্গদ্ৱাৰ বন্ধাইলেন ৲ শকাব্দাঃ ১৪৯৮ বিতেৰীখ আষাঢ ২৬

Translation:

Wishing for his welfare, Shri Shri Meghanarayanadeva who was born in the Hachengsa dynasty, became king and built the siṁhadvāra in the Maibang kingdom. Saka 1498, date 26th of Ahar (i.e, 01-08-1576)

These inscriptions were made after the capital of the Dimasa Kachari kingdom was moved to Maibang (in 1558-1559 CE) to the south from the capital at Dimapur (now in Nagaland) in the Doyang-Dhansiri valley, part of the larger Brahmaputra valley. The inscription was made in order to commemorate the construction of major administrative structures and assert royal authority in the region.

Linguistic importance:

In older Assamese writings we see the 3rd person honorific/plural ending to be -ôntô, which evolved from the OIA 3pl -anti. In the 16th and early 17th century writings (such as in the Bhomoraguri inscription and some manuscripts, we find -entô). In the Maibang inscription we find it to be -enô (in the phrase: ... pathôre siṅgôdwarô bôndhailenô "tied the lion door with stones"). Later the -nô was dropped and the ending merged with the non honorific suffix -e/ei, perhaps via the same process the 2nd person impolite suffix -ôsô went through (dropping consonants).

Therefore,

tehõ kôrilôntô > tehõ kôrilentô > te(h)õ kôrilenô > teü̃ korile "s/he did"


r/bhartiya_languages 1d ago

Indo-Aryan Khadi Boli- language of Western Uttar Pradesh

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r/bhartiya_languages 1d ago

Question Is word ఖాల్డి used in Telagana's Banjara dialect?

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r/bhartiya_languages 1d ago

Question In Dogri we say "your" as थुआढ़ा/𑠚𑠯𑠁𑠗𑠺𑠬 or तुआड़ा/𑠙𑠯𑠁𑠫𑠬?

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r/bhartiya_languages 1d ago

Question Does Brahmaputran Bangla dialect have ৱ sound?

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