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sonofgunongjerai
Can anyone contribute Sanskrit, Tamil, or Hindi words in your language? It is easy for Indian and SEA who wanted to learn each other languages kiss.gif

As a start, the terms in my language borrowed from Tamil are:

Macha - Man

Mapilai - used in restaurant to customer by friendly Mamma

Mamma, Mamak - Uncle

Mami - Auntie

Kadai, Kedai - Shop

preahvihear
QUOTE(sonofgunongjerai @ Jul 31 2008, 09:55 AM) *
Can anyone contribute Sanskrit, Tamil, or Hindi words in your language? It is easy for Indian and SEA who wanted to learn each other languages kiss.gif


The Khmers have a whole lot of words derived from the Sanskrit and Pali sources.

Khmer: Kampuchea = Cambodia < Pali/Sanskrit: kamboja = of the race of Kambu.
Jagger
QUOTE(sonofgunongjerai @ Jul 31 2008, 03:55 PM) *
Can anyone contribute Sanskrit, Tamil, or Hindi words in your language? It is easy for Indian and SEA who wanted to learn each other languages kiss.gif

As a start, the terms in my language borrowed from Tamil are:

Macha - Man

Mapilai - used in restaurant to customer by friendly Mamma

Mamma, Mamak - Uncle

Mami - Auntie

Kadai, Kedai - Shop

What language do you speak?
sonofgunongjerai
QUOTE(Jagger @ Aug 1 2008, 08:04 AM) *
What language do you speak?


I speak both Malay and Thai laugh.gif Those words that I provided are from Tamil and borrowed in Malay biggthumpup.gif
sonofgunongjerai
Sanskrit words borrowed in Malay:

Singa - Lion

Raja - King

Saya - I, also means slaves for humble speech, from Sanskrit word Sahayah

Barat - West

Daksina - South

Utara - North

What language do you speak Jagger?
Jagger
QUOTE(sonofgunongjerai @ Aug 1 2008, 12:53 PM) *
What language do you speak Jagger?

My native language is Sylheti, a dialect of Bengali. I'm not really sure about calling it a "dialect" though, because I barely even understand the standard dialect of Bengali. The difference is that standard Bengali is based almost entirely on Sanskrit and Pali, whereas my Sylheti dialect has a lot of Arabic and Persian influence. My language also has some Tamil words, like "amma" (mum) and "abba" (dad).
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