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	English language : QuicklyFind Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes (Vikings), that began populating the British Isles around 500 AD.
		English belongs to the western sub-branch of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
		English is the first language in Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, New Zealand, Antigua, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
	www.quicklyfind.com /info/English_language.htm (2819 words)

	Hindi Information Center - hindi
		Hindi is often contrasted with Urdu, another english to hindi standardized form of Hindustani that is the official language of Pakistan and some states in India.
		Hindi is the predominant language in the states and territories of Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Uttaranchal, Jharkhand, and Chattisgarh.
		In Hindi, "vo bolta hai" is "he talks" whereas "vo bolti hai" is "she talks." A typical English pronunciation in the first sentence would be "vo boltuh hai," which will be understood as "she talks" by most Hindi-native speakers.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_H_-_L/Hindi.html (2606 words)

	BhashaIndia.com :: Hindi words in English
		The influence of Indian languages on English is evident from the number of Indian words that have made to the English dictionary.
		Hindi word lakh (a reddish resin used as sealing wax) is the source for Lac, an English word for a pigment later modified as shellac and lacquer.
		English word attar (perfumed essence/oil) sounds very similar to Itr, an urdu word which is commonly used while referring to perfume or essence specially in North India.
	bhashaindia.com /Patrons/LanguageTech/Hindiwords.htm (1061 words)

	English
		English is descended from the language spoken in the English Isles by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, who came to the British Isles around 450 AD and drove the original Celtic-speaking inhabitants to areas that are
		English is now the most widely studied second language in the world because a working knowledge of English is required in many fields and occupations as well as for international communication.
		English spread from Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries to North America, the Caribbean, and northern Ireland; and in the 18th and 19th centuries to South Asia and Africa.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/december/English.html (1303 words)

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		As a language, English is derived from the Anglo-Saxon, a dialect of West Germanic (as was Old Low German), although its current vocabulary includes words from many languages.
		The search for meaningful origins for familiar or strange words is far older than the modern understanding of linguistic evolution and the relationships of languages, with its roots no deeper than the 18th century.
		Others make the word refer to exceptions of impossible cases; the priests were to perform all the duties possible to them; if any thing lay beyond their power, the exception was not to be cavilled at.
	www.mcps.k12.md.us /schools/chevychasees/etymology/links.htm (856 words)

	Top 20 English
		English is a West Germanic language that originated from languages brought to Britain during the first half of the first millennium by Germanic settlers from various parts of north-west Germany.
		English is the primary language in Australia (Australian English), the Bahamas, Barbados (Caribbean English), Bermuda, Dominica, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica (Jamaican English), New Zealand (New Zealand English), Antigua and Barbuda, St.
		English is the most widely learned and used foreign language in the world, and, as such, many linguists believe it is no longer the exclusive cultural emblem of "native English speakers," but rather a language that is absorbing aspects of cultures worldwide as it grows in use.
	top20english.com (4637 words)

	yourDictionary.com • Library: Origin of Words II
		English has not borrowed as extensively from Greek as it has from Latin; however, there are still thousands of words borrowed from Greek or based on Greek roots.
		The important point is that the meanings of these words are what they are because of the original meanings of the Greek roots in them.
		Not all words borrowed from Norwegian supplanted native English words.
	www.yourdictionary.com /library/ling008_a.html (1227 words)

	Etymology of Selected Words of Indian Language Origin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		However words were rarely substituted to English words, as it happened during Old English and Middle English periods, with Latin and French words.
		The words that came from South Indian languages meanwhile took the exact opposite course, with 't' and 'd', being pronounced softly or not at all: as in cheroot (Tamil churuttu/shuruttu).
		This word was probably absorbed to Portuguese, when the Portuguese ruled over Goa, Bombay during the early part of the 17th century, and from Portuguese was absorbed to English.
	www.wmich.edu /dialogues/themes/indianwords.htm (3061 words)

	List of English words of Hindi origin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many of the Hindi equivalents have originated from Sanskrit; see List of English words of Sanskrit origin.
		The word is from the Hindi word 'champoo' meaning massaging the scalp.
		Lists of English words of foreign origin
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Hindi_origin (418 words)

	LINGUIST List 15.1540: Latin / English Plural of Virus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There is no such thing as a Latin, English, Chinese, Hindi word that exists apart from its participation in the rules of a natural language.
		The heart of the problem in finding the ''original'' Latin plural, is that the word ''virus'' in Latin (meaning ''venom'', ''snake poison'') is a mass noun: it has no plural.
		The word itself in its present usage in any case does not come into English from Latin but French (as far as I know it was coined in the late 19th c.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/15/15-1540.html (1849 words)

	Hindi Language and Literature
		Hindi is a direct descendant of Sanskrit through Prakrit and Apabhramsha.
		Outside of India, Hindi speakers are 100,000 in USA; 685,170 in Mauritius; 890,292 in South Africa; 232,760 in Yemen; 147,000 in Uganda; 5,000 in Singapore; 8 million in Nepal; 20,000 in New Zealand; 30,000 in Germany.
		Dakhini is an older, southern form of Urdu that uses fewer Persian or Arabic words.
	www.cs.colostate.edu /~malaiya/hindiint.html (844 words)

	Reviews: Collins English Dictionary
		One notable addition to this new edition is a set of 25 of the words used by British people of Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi descent, who are generically and misleadingly called Asians.
		These words are tagged in the dictionary as Hinglish, a linguistic fusion of Hindi and English, though many of the terms are really from Punjabi and other languages.
		First on the list of new words this time is abandonware (computer software which is no longer sold or supported by its publisher).
	www.worldwidewords.org /reviews/re-col1.htm (434 words)

	Words in English: Mini-Projects
		Imagine you are writing for the intelligent lay public; in other words, write so as to make informative and interesting reading matter for colleagues, family, and friends who read.
		Discuss the set(s) of loanwords taken from this language into English, and the social and cultural contact that was the backdrop to this influence.
		Sources of information on this topic include not only books on the history of English, but also, the OED on CD-ROM, if you learn a bit about the searching capabilities, can be searched for entries which have sources in specific languages.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~kemmer/Words/miniprojects.html (915 words)

	Yamada Language Center: Hindi-Urdu WWW Guide
		Hindi program at Penn WWW hindi lessons (audio and video), and images from northern India.
		Hindi, Urdu, Pashtu, Pashto and English Word List - 210 common words
		Hindi Language and Literature - History of language.
	babel.uoregon.edu /YAMADA/guides/hindiurdu.html (189 words)

	Quizzes - Learning resources - Oxford English Dictionary
		Which word means a type of dance and a type of sauce?
		Why was the song containing the word "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" the subject of a law suit?
		Which word was first recorded in the TV programme
	www.oed.com /learning/quizzes.html (656 words)

	List of English words of Indian origin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of words in the English language that originated in any of the languages of India.
		Bungalow from Bungla (Urdu) - a large house, typically with a sloping, tiled roof
		Shampoo from Champi (Hindi) - A head massage with some kind of oil or treacly mixture just before a bath
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Indian_origin (194 words)

	English Words from Arabic
		As with the list of Amerindian words, this list isn't exhaustive-- the OED has over 900 words; but the others are obscure (words like enam, sulham, zibib).
		After a second hyphen I give (if possible) the further derivation (Greek, Persian, etc.), or the verbal root (glossed as an infinitive; but the citation form of Arabic roots is actually the 3sg past).
		Some words are borrowed directly from Arabic; but most of these words have taken the scenic route, through Spanish, Italian, and/or French; or through Turkish, Persian, or Urdu; or through Hebrew or Latin.
	www.zompist.com /arabic.html (808 words)

	Hindi Urdu translation
		More than 75,000 words of IT, medical, commercial, legal and...
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	www.translatorscafe.com /translations/Hindi/Urdu (1362 words)

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