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Bambaiyya Hindi: Some salient features of the Hindi spoken in Mumbai

Beautifully Broken: Understanding the Peculiarities of Bambaiyya Hindi

In this blog Srotoswini delves into the idiosyncracies of Hindi as spoken...

A Historical Primer on Urdu

Urdu, spoken by approximately 180 million people worldwide, is often referred to...

The Origins of Hindi

A major modern South Asian language, Hindi is spoken and understood by more...

What's wrong with English spelling?

Although spoken English is quite easy to learn, a fact that certainly...

Sanskrit and Greek

Greek - a book on Sanskrit grammar

Of all the Indo-European languages, ancient Greek and Sanskrit are undoubtedly the...

Native languages and foreign stocks: retroflexes in Sanskrit and Hindi

Sanskrit and Hindi are both part of the Indo-European language family and...

Father in Greek and Sanskrit: looking is not tasting

In an earlier article entitled Father sky in ancient Greek and Sanskrit the...

Vowel gradation 101

Just as colours exist in many-stepped gradations produced by the different capacities...