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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

@SagirAhmed98

9 months

Why do we always avoid our traditional architecture? Let's consider it too. Bhutanese buildings (image) are constructed in the traditional architecture and they're beautiful.

The Madhya Pradesh Index

@mp_index

9 months

Gems of Indian Babus 🤡

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

The letter "a" (handwritten) in modern/recent scripts used in South Asia. #scripts #writingsystems #southasia

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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2 years

"I love you" / "I like you" in various Indo-Aryan languages spoken in the eastern part of its range.

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2 years

Made my first map with iipmaps. It makes map making so easy, loved it! About the map: Bodo is mainly spoken in BTR (Bodoland) area which constitutes Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri districts where it is an official language. The next district is Sonitpur. Baksa has the...

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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11 months

Practicing traditional Assamese script and learning Sanskrit together!

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

"I/We" in #IndoAryan languages. Thanks to those who helped me with the data. Please let me know if you see mistakes.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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2 years

Wrote the word "sampūrṇṇa" (double ṇa variant), meaning "entire, filled" in Brahmi, Gupta, Siddham and Traditional Assamese scripts.

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11 months

11th-13th century Durga devi sculpture discovered in Ambari, Guwahati, Assam. Made in the Kamarupa kingdom, it is a great example of Assamese sculpture art from that period. We see many such sculptures, idols and other evidence of Durga such as literature in Assam belonging to /

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3 years

#Sanskrit_meme

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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11 months

Learning Sanskrit in the Bamuniya style of traditional Assamese script. The Bamuniya style was used by Bamuns/Brahmins of Assam to write Sanskrit.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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2 years

Tried to draw (over) the signature of Harshavardhana (606-647 CE) which is early Siddham script (or late Gupta), in red, with a transliteration in Traditional Assamese below.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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2 years

Trying Assamese traditional manuscript painting and writing digitally, showing Bihu dance. The letters used here are in the old/traditional style found in manuscripts and inscriptions.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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2 years

Mustard is very popular in India. Especially in the East, Northeast and North. The seed is used to make chutney, sauce or paste, like কাসুন্দি (kaśundi) in Bengal, ଖଟା (khôṭa) in Odisha. In Assam there are two of them: কাহুঁদি (kahũdi) / পানীটেঙা (paniteŋa) and খাৰলি ...

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

Scripts that were and are used in Assam.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

The word hiṃsā in Sanskrit means "violence" but in Assamese, the loanword hiŋxa means "jealousy". That seems to be an interesting semantic change.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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9 months

My first handwritten post, in Kamarupi/Traditional Assamese script. “অসমত এতিয়ালৈ পোৱা আটাইতকৈ পুৰণি লিখনি হৈছে ৫ম শতিকাৰ নগাজৰী-খনিকৰগাঁৱৰ শিলালিপি। তাতে কছাৰী ভাষাৰ শব্দ {dībrū} বা দীব্ৰূ লিখা আছে।” It means, the earliest inscription discovered in Assam is the 5th century /

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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2 years

Just got this book I ordered ❤️❤️❤️ Opening a new door to my pre colonization studies on Assam and Assamese!!

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

#Papaya was brought from central parts of the Americas to South Asia in 16th century by Europeans. It is now commonly found in South Asia. Like other new world crops, papaya was called by names of different origins along with names derived from the original term. So the /1

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

(hitpost with debuccalization)

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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10 months

What is the difference between Diwali and Deepavali? In many Indian languages both terms are used. Many who are interested in Indian languages may already know the answer. But many have questions related to it. I have seen people associating the former with Hindi and the latter /

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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2 years

How do you say "mind your own business" in your languages, and what's the literal meaning? Assamese: nizôr kam kôra ("do your own job") Hindi: apne kām se kām rakho (I'm not exactly sure, but I guess "keep the work with your own work")

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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8 months

Since many are sharing pictures of Indian islands, here are some pictures of islands from Assam which are located on the vast Dilao (as the Brahmaputra river is called in Dimasa) and various other rivers and lakes. Picture credits: Sachin Bharali (1, 3), Vikram Das (2)

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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7 months

Chess pieces names in Assamese that are used here: Chess : দবাখেল dobakhel King : ৰজা roza "king" Queen : ৰাণী rani "queen" Bishop : হাতী hati "elephant" Knight : ঘোঁৰা ghü̃ra "horse" Rook : নাও naü "boat" Pawn : কটোৱাল kotüal "constable" / সৈনিক xoinik "soldier" How do u say?

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

Many languages termed oranges after place names of Portugal. Like Arabic بُرْتُقَال (burtuqāl), Turkish portakal, Romanian portocală etc. We see a similar case with some Indian languages. Hindi-Urdu संतरा / سنترا (santrā), Marathi संत्रे (santre), ...

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

Language myths: 1. If any spoken "language-like thing" is not written then it's not a language: No. Writing has nothing to do with being a language. Writing and speaking are different things. In fact the vast majority of world's languages were never written.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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7 months

Yesterday I got to learn about a new seemingly Indo-Aryan(?) language from Barak valley (Assam) and Sylhet (Bangladesh). The language is called Laiunghtor and its speakers are called Laleng or Patra. The people use patra as their surname. This bear similarity with the Tiwa /

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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4 years

Indian months in different Indo-Aryan languages. I made this in 2018. Here red marks loanwords (need updating: böhag and söt in Assamese are also loanwords, etc.)

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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2 years

In 1447 the Nilachal Kamakhya temple inscription was made when Kamakhya temple was rebuilt by Sukladhwaj, popularly know as Mohabir Chilarai, the CM ("Dewan") and commander in chief of Koch dynasty under king Naranarayan after the former structure of the temple was destroyed. 1/

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

Many language learners ask for translations of these but a lot of languages lack their usage. In my L1 (Assamese) for example, good morning can be literally translated as "xupråbhat" or "xubhå ratipua", but they aren't used, not at all in the spoken language. Instead we ...

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

Magadhi Prakrit, Sanskrit, Thai, Assamese, Odia, Ahom, English. Forgive me for not being able to keep the lines parallel.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

#Coincidence of the day - #Japanese : 泣かないで (nakanaide, dialectal: nakande) "Don't cry!" #Assamese : নাকান্দে (nakande) "Shouldn't cry!" 1/n

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

শঙ্কৰদেৱৰ যুগত যি অসমীয়া চলিছিল সেহিগোট মঞি কহিবাক বড় ইচ্ছা কৰোহোঁ। এবে শিখি আছোঁ পুথি পঢ়িয়া। ইহাৰ ওপৰত অধিক গৱেষণা নাহি, আপনাৰ অভিধানো নাহি, শবদচয় আজিৰ অসমীয়াৰ অভিধানতে থাকয়। ভাষাগোট আতি আমোদজনক, পদ্য আৰু গদ্য দুয়োগোট পঢ়োঁ। কেহোঁ কি পাৰন্ত? মোত পৰে কোনে কোনে শিখি আছন্ত?

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

Main letters for my traditional Assamese / Kamarupi script font is completed! (এইটো ১৯ শতিকাৰ মধ্যভাগলৈকে অসমত প্ৰচলিত থকা লিপিটো। এই আখৰবোৰৰ কিছুমানৰ আৰু বেলেগ ধৰণো আছিল।)

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

Like other hilly regions, Northeast India is also a linguistic hotspot. Before colonization it had 4 language families: Sino-Tibetan (Meitei, Bodo, Kokborok, Mizo, Ao etc), Indo-European (Assamese, Sylheti, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Kamtapuri, Nepali etc), Austroasiatic (Khasi, War..

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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2 years

So here's another! In Barak valley (in South Assam) there are several Assamese speaking villages, the people of which migrated there during Burmese invasions in early 19th century.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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11 months

"The only difference between the Bengali and Assamese scripts is the letter "r" (and the letter "w")" This one is both true and false. In terms of current usage it is true. But if we go back just, like 170 years, it's not true. The ৰ we associate with Assamese today was ...

Marijn van Putten

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11 months

What is something that is wrong in your field that just won't die, no matter how often you point out/say/publish that it's a misconception? Mine: "The earliest Quranic manuscripts were without consonantal dots/dots were only introduce ca. year 60 AH"

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

A friend shared link to this first printed Bengali book from 1743. The languages used are Bengali and Portuguese and it was published in Lisbon. The Bengali orthography is based on Portuguese, which is interesting also because Bengali /ʃ/ (শ, ষ, স) is represented by "x" and...

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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1 year

In the Ahom kingdom, there were archives called the গন্ধীয়া ভঁৰাল gondhia bhõral (lit: "scented/sulphur store-house") where books were kept with sulphur fumes to protect them from insects. Letters, treaties, judicial papers, surveys, reports, chronicles etc were stored here...

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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1 year

Interesting that in this 1839 spelling and vocabulary book for Assamese, Singpho and "Naga" (Nocte), the word for school is translated into Assamese as "ফলিলোৱা ঘৰ (pholi-lüa ghor)", which is literally "house where one takes the slate/black-board". Pholilüa translates to ...

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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7 months

Why do these things get published??? - Sanskrit was "written" in "Devanagari script" in 1500 BC (predating its ancestor Brahmi script by 1200 years!) - Odia is an Austroasiatic lang (Oldest language ≠ Oldest attested language Ancestor ≠ Descendant)

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

Assamese units for land measurement: 1 nål নল = 12 feet / 8 hat 1 lêsa লেচা (or lüsa লোচা) = 144 square feet / 1 nol × 1 nål 1 kåtha কঠা = 2,880 square feet / 20 lêsa 1 bigha বিঘা = 14,400 square feet / 5 kåtha 1 pura পুৰা = 57,600 square feet / 4 bigha Cognates in ...

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

@SagirAhmed98

8 months

Happy new year 2024 to everyone! In Rabha and Assamese (red) written in Kamarupi / Traditional Assamese script (bhüta/blunt variant):

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10 months

Sattriya Nritya (Assamese: সত্ৰীয়া নৃত্য xotria nrittyô) from Assam is one of the 8 recognised classical dances of India. On Nov 15, "Sattriya Nritya day" is celebrated as on that day, in 2000, it was recognised as a classical dance by Sangeet Natak Academy of India.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

Another linguistic xitpost

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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2 years

Tried to make this adding terms for "flood" in different languages spoken in the state. Please correct if there are any mistakes and add more languages. #AssamFloods #AssamFloods2022 #NationalCrisis #AssamUnderWater

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

Both আলোচনা (alüsona) /alʊsɔna/ and आलोचना (ālōcnā) /ɑːloːtʃna/ are borrowed from Sanskrit আলোচনা / आलोचना (ālōcanā, “seeing, considering”). While in Assamese, alüsona means "discussion", in Hindi ālōcnā means "criticism". In Assamese, সমালোচনা xomalüsona means "criticism".

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

"What are you doing?" in some Indo-Aryan languages. I want to add more languages, can you translate this into other Indo-Aryan languages? Use the familiar or casual form (tum in Hindi). Also tell if the given translations are correct.

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3 years

#Assamese and #unicode The Assamese unicode movement is a long running issue. It keeps appearing time to time. I'll talk about what the Assamese script unicode activists should understand. 1/n

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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2 years

Quite well explained! Congrats Milind and Ashris!

India in Pixels by Ashris

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2 years

NEW VIDEO ALERT! The two types of "We" in Marathi - an exploration of clusivity in Indian languages. Watch here:

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

Almost correct 😀 But we say chewing gum as "suing-gam" /suiŋ ɡam/, not sing-gam. Assamese lacks <ch> & <sh> sounds, realised as <s>. Also lacks <v>, the <th>s, realized as /bʱ/ & /tʰ/, /d/. Doesn't have vocal length. So "sit, seat, cheat, sh*t, sheet" sound the same, as "sit".

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3 years

Assamese-English, anyone 🤡

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

English orthography: *exists* Other languages: No it's not supposed to exist

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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2 years

Happy new year 2023! In different languages and scripts: English = Latin (Carolingian, with thorn) Sylheti = Sylheti Nagri Hindustani = Perso-Arabic (Nastaliq) Assamese = Assamese (Kaitheli) Meitei = Meitei Mayek Marathi = Modi

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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8 months

I had a culture shock when I was travelling on a train in Bengal. They were selling bowls of rasgullas and gulab jamuns on the train! And people were buying those bowls, each bowl containing four sweets! As a Northeastern not only such sweets are for very special occasions only/

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8 months

The opposite culture shock was when I first started tasting Asian desserts and found that they completely lack dairy! For me, having grown up in India, milk is a quintessential element of most sweet stuff.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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2 years

In Hailakandi district, the most spoken language is given as "Tripuri" actually, but it's combined by Kokborok and Bru/Reang. They're considered separate sister languages, spoken by same community, Tripuris. Nagaon has almost equal number of Karbi speakers.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

What do you call #mantis in other languages? #Assamese : গাগিনী (gagini) #Sylheti : ꠡꠂꠔꠣꠘ (shoitan) #Dimasa : gangu #Jingpho : n̩³³ ka̱ŋ³³ ko̱t³¹ #Karbi : longbipo The Assamese term also means a kind of ant.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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2 years

Assamese names borrowed from Sanskrit with -ndra have the -dra (-drô) removed. nagendra > nôgên khagendra > khôgên ramendra > rômên harendra > hôrên mahendra > môhên bhupendra > bhupên rupendra > rupên surendra > xurên mrigendra > mrigên, migên dvīpendra > dipên vīrendra > birên

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2 years

#Koch

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2 years

Two illustrated Assamese manuscript pages. 1. Lava Kusara juddha (composed in 14th century by Harivara Vipra. The manuscript was probably made in 15th-16th c) 2. Sachitra Ramayana (lThe manuscript was probably made in 15th-16th c)

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#Ahom 𑜉𑜢𑜐𑜫 miñ #Assamese কেঁটেলা পহু kẽtelā påhu #Bodo mwdwi #Bengali সজারু śåjāru #Dimasa midi #Hindi साही sāhī #Kamta চেদা sedā #Meitei ꯁꯥꯕꯧ sabou #Nepali दुम्सी dumsi #Odia ଝିଙ୍କ jhiṅkå #Rabha ফেথে phéthe #Sanskrit शल्यः śalyaḥ #Sylheti ꠌꠦꠖꠣ sedā #Thai เม่น mên

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আজিকালি অসমীয়াত নামবোৰত "স"বোৰ "চ" হ’বলৈ ধৰিছে, বিশেষকৈ বাতৰি চেনেলবোৰত। চৰ্মা, চইকীয়া, চাগৰিকা, চঞ্জীব, কিচোৰ, চৌৰভ, চুৰ্ভী, বৰ্চা (বৰষা), দিক্সিতা (দিক্ষিতা), চিপচাগৰ, চোণাপুৰ, বচিষ্ঠ আদি। মই সৰুৰে পৰা স বুলিয়ে উচ্চাৰণ কৰি আহিছোঁ, এতিয়াও কৰোঁ, মাথোঁ কিছুমান নাম বাদ দি।

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

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3 years

On the Assamese surname: বৰগোহাঁই borgühãi /bɒɹɡʊɦãɪ/ <bara-gohā̃i> In the Ahom kingdom, the surname was given to one of the 3 Gohains (counsellors). The term literally means "big counsellor". The other two are - বুঢ়াগোহাঁই burha-gühãi and বৰপাত্ৰগোহাঁই bor-patro-gühãi which...

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@SagirAhmed98

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57 Sanskrit: saptapañcāśat It comes from PIE *septḿ̥-pénkʷe-dḱomt (7-5-10) So it is 7+5×10 But in Prakrit it's sattavaṇṇaṁ, here satta definitely comes from sapta, but -vaṇṇaṁ doesn't seem like it comes from -pañcāśat because the reflex of the -śat seems to be /i

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@SagirAhmed98

3 years

How Indians from different parts decorate themselves - 1. Kodava groom from South (Karnataka) 2. Jarawa child from East (Andaman & Nicobar Islands) 3. Purigpa girl from North (Ladakh) 4. Siddi men from West (Gujarat)

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@SagirAhmed98

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Four new Indian languages, Bhojpuri, Bodo, Dogri and Kashmiri are added to Microsoft Translator!

Microsoft Translator expands to 20 Indian languages, empowering linguistic diversity - Microsoft...

Microsoft Translator gets four new Indian languages: Bhojpuri, Bodo, Dogri, and Kashmiri.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

@SagirAhmed98

1 year

Tried to make it with a Bihu song line in traditional Assamese script.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

@SagirAhmed98

10 months

The famines caused by inhuman policies during the British Raj that killed over 60 million South Asians, genetically changed our body to store more sugar and fat that can be used for energy for a longer period to survive starvations. This increased the /

How British colonialism increased diabetes in south Asians | It's...

People of south Asian origin today are between four and six times more likely to get type 2 diabetes than white people.Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ►...

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

@SagirAhmed98

3 years

Vegetable of the day - cucumber 🥒 Let's discuss some of their etymologies. The most commonly seen Indo-Aryan word here is khīrā (Bhojpuri, Maithili, also Hindi), khira (Bishnupriya Manipuri, varieties of Bengali and Kamtapuri), kíra (Sylheti), hire (Chakma) came from /1

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@SagirAhmed98

3 years

#World_Rhino_Day I tried to collect words for rhinoceros in different Northeast Indian languages. Unfortunately many languages are left, please add or correct if you find missings or mistakes. Many of the terms for rhino are related and probably have a Khasic (Austro.) origin.

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@SagirAhmed98

3 years

Updated version. Updates: 1. Added more scripts and variations. 2. Removed non Brahmic scripts to make the title simple. 3. Changed the title.

Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

@SagirAhmed98

3 years

The letter "a" (handwritten) in modern/recent scripts used in South Asia. #scripts #writingsystems #southasia

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Guest #Assamese আলহী alohi (d: আলেহী alehi, কুইৰ্মা kuirma) #Bodo आलासि alasi #Tiwa alasi #Rabha ক্ৰৗমা krɨma #Sylheti ꠇꠥꠐꠥꠝ kuṭum #Chittagonian gorba, meéman #Hindi मेहमान mehmān #Marathi पाहुणा pāhuṇā #Nepali पाहुना pāunā #Sanskrit अतिथि atithi #Ahom 𑜁𑜢𑜀𑜫 khik PFI

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

@SagirAhmed98

3 years

My favourite linguistic traits in Assamese: 1. Lack of retroflex and dental (their merger to alveolar). 2. Sounds like [ɹ], [x̩]. 3. Avoiding consonant clusters in words by preserving and adding vowels. 4. Progressive vowel harmony. 5. Possessive suffixes for kinship.

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@avzaagzonunaada

3 years

This is fun. My favorite linguistic traits of Bengali: (1) the conditional converb (2) numerical classifiers that double as definiteness suffixes (3) genitive chaining (4) progressive vowel harmony (Calcutta-specific) (5) loss of the plural (6) retroflexed vowels (Calcutta??)

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@SagirAhmed98

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A similar case is seen in Northeast India, where non-tonal Khasic languages of the Austroasiatic family are surrounded by tonal Tibeto-Burman langs. It also borders a tonal Indo-Aryan lang, Sylheti in the south. While in the north, it borders a non-tonal Indo-Aryan lang Assamese.

A. Z. Forеmаn: Sеrious Philolοgy, Sillу Βеhavior

@azforeman

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How did Khmer manage to exist where it does without developing lexical tones? Hanging out in that part of Southeast Asia and never going through tonogenesis is a bit like being a cop in Moscow without taking a bribe. Something weird is going on.

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@SagirAhmed98

3 years

Went to 14th century Assam by a time machine and having a conversation with a person in Early Assamese 🤭

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@SagirAhmed98

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Stereotypes: Durga puja and "Bengali alphabet" belong to Bengal. Truth: Durga Puja has been celebrated in the most of the Eastern region of South Asia, including Assam, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand etc for a very long time. /1

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@SagirAhmed98

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My calligraphic attempt to write the mantra "Oṁ Maṇi Padme Hūṁ" in Tibetan script. তিব্বতীয় লিপিত “ওঁ মণি পদ্মে হূঁ” মন্ত্ৰটোৰ চাৰুলিপি লিখিবলৈ চেষ্টা কৰিলোঁ।

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

@SagirAhmed98

3 years

#Bhut_jolokia , aka ghost pepper from our garden. Once the hottest, now 3rd hottest chilli. Do you know that the term "ghost pepper" is a "mistranslation" of the #Assamese term ভোট জলকীয়া (bhüt zolokia, "Bhutanese chilli"), from which we also get "bhut jolokia" in English. 1/

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@SagirAhmed98

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Tried writing the word ꯀꯪꯂꯥꯁꯥ (kɘŋlasa) in Meitei (Manipuri). It is a guardian deity of Manipuri culture. I hope peace will come soon in the beautiful diverse state of Manipur.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

@SagirAhmed98

3 years

Finally! Meitei Manipuri Wikipedia ❤️

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@SagirAhmed98

8 months

The Ahom letters 𑜔 dha, 𑜗 gha, 𑜘 bha and 𑜙 jha aren't part of the Ahom phonology and are used for Assamese words written in the Ahom script. I just realised that they are made from the unvoiced equivalent letters (except the jha): 𑜌 tha, 𑜁 kha and 𑜇 pha, with a loop (or /

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

@SagirAhmed98

7 months

Some places in Assam have these endings: পেটা peta, পেটীয়া petia, পেট pet. Examples: Borpeta, Xorupeta, Kharupetia, Bala pet. The preceding terms mean big, small, bangles and perhaps sand respectively. They are similar to పేట pēṭa in places of Telangana, AnP. Eg: Suryapēṭa, /

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

@SagirAhmed98

3 years

@YoursMemely Many languages from Eastern South Asia like Assamese, Bengali, Sylheti etc use mane/māyne, from Persian mani, from Arabic ma'nā, from the same '-n-y root.

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@SagirAhmed98

3 years

I like how ox is called guru and cow is called guruni in #Romani 😁 (-ni is a feminine suffix in Romani). গৰু আৰু গৰুণী!

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

@SagirAhmed98

3 years

Started practicing Moḍī script. #Modi #Marathi #calligraphy

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@SagirAhmed98

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bangles ⭕ #Assamese খাৰু khāru #Bengali চুড়ি cuṛi #Bhojpuri 𑂒𑂴𑂚𑂲 cūṛī #Gujarati બંગડી baṅgḍī #Hindustani चूड़ी چوڑی cūṛī #Kamtapuri খাৰু khāru #Marathi बांगडी bāṅgḍī #Nepali चुरा curā #Odia ଚୁଡ଼ି cuṛi #Punjabi ਚੂੜੀ cūṛī #Sylheti ꠌꠥꠠꠤ suṛi, ꠛꠣꠋꠠꠤ bāṅṛi

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@SagirAhmed98

3 years

Tried to trace remains of Brahmi script inside Devanagari and Eastern Nagari.

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@SagirAhmed98

2 years

Would love to see some more extinct/dead languages having on machine translators (Google translate, MS translate)! Like Pali, some other Prakrits, Egyptian, Coptic, Sumerian, Old English, Elamite, Ancient Greek, Classical Arabic, Ge‘ez, Avestan, Early Assamese, Old Khmer etc.

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@SagirAhmed98

3 years

Some ruins and rock carvings from Northeast India - Left to right: 1. Kachari ruins, Dimapur, Nagaland 2. Unakoti (7th-9th c), Tripura 3. Mizoram ruins 4. Dah Parbatiya temple ruin (6th c), Tezpur, Assam #AchapterforNE

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@SagirAhmed98

2 years

Words of the day: Fungus | Mushroom 🍄 Assamese: ভেঁকুৰ bhẽkur | বেংছতা bêŋsôta, কাঠফুলা kathphula Hindi: फफूंद phaphūnd | कुकुरमुत्ता kukurmuttā Nepali: ढुसी ḍhusi | च्याउ cyau Odia: ଫିମ୍ପି phimpi | ଛତୁ chôtu 1/n Let's look at the etymology of the ones I've found:

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@SagirAhmed98

4 years

Sharing an unique feature of #Assamese . These are only used with #kinship terms (unlike #Turkish , #Indonesian etc) and other suffixes can be attached to them. They didn't originate from pronouns and they depend on both pronouns and formality, more to the former. #linguistics

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@SagirAhmed98

3 years

#Bhojpuri word of the day - 𑂋𑂀𑂘𑂪𑂰𑂪𑂲 / ओँठलाली (õṭhlālī) õṭh means “lips” and lālī is probably from lāl “red”.

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@SagirAhmed98

9 months

@IgnorantBoh Examples from Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Eastern UP We can modify them. Fusions can also be made.

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@SagirAhmed98

3 years

Word of the day: Spinning wheel #Assamese যঁতৰ zå̃tår #Bengali চরকা cårka #Bodo जेनथेर zenther #Dimasa khunthulu #Gujarati ચરખો carkho #Hajong জুথৰ zuthår #Kannada ಚರಕ caraka #Marathi #Hindi - #Urdu #Punjabi चरखा چرخہ ਚਰਖ਼ਾ carkhā #Odia ଚରଖା cåråkha #Tamil நூற்புச் சக்கரம் 1/n

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@SagirAhmed98

3 years

Language myth of the night: "If language A is spoken near language B and they share morphological and phonetic similarities, they must be related." No, not necessarily. Languages spoken in the same region influence each other. Examples of linguistic influence: Indian...

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@SagirAhmed98

3 years

A suggestion for people who learn scripts. If you're learning a script and want to write with your hand then don't follow the font shown on your devices, in most cases they are "sans serif" fonts which are suitable for screens. Follow the "serif" fonts (usually seen in books).

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@SagirAhmed98

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The word "mehmân" means "guest" in Persian. It has been borrowed to some Indo-Aryan languages like Hindi-Urdu (mehmān), Bengali (mehman) etc. But I never heard this term in Assamese. The words for "guest" in Assamese are আলহী alohi (in Standard) and কুইৰ্মা kuirma (in Kamrupi /

Amul Assam

@AmulAssam

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আজি আপোনাৰ আলহী কোন ? #amul #amultaaza #amulassam #amulinassam #amulindia #tasteofindia #assam #loveforfood #loveforassam #awesomeassam #ramadan

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

@SagirAhmed98

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/zaˈnʊ̃/ = I know /ˈzaːnʊ̃/ = I don't know #Assamese101

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@SagirAhmed98

3 years

Excited for Tamil 😃

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

@SagirAhmed98

3 years

In many Indian languages, #Christmas is literally called "big day" (Assamese: bårdin, Hindi: baṛā din). In Malay and Indonesian, Eid is called "big day" (hari raya). I wonder what festivals "big day" in other languages refer to.

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Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด

@SagirAhmed98

3 years

There 3 types of singular definitive suffixes (usually like a non classifier) in Eastern languages. ṭ- (ṭo, ṭā, ṭi, ṭa, ṭe, ḍā, ṛā) based, g- (gu, ga, gā, ge, gwā) based and goṭ- (goṭā, goṭi/guṭi, goṭå) based. The image is based on my knowledge.

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@SagirAhmed98

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In 1562, the Barak valley region of Assam came under the Koch rule. Many people from the Brahmaputra and Teesta valleys (core area of Koch dynasty) migrated to Barak valley at that time. Today these people are referred to as Deans there. They speak a language called Dean/Dhean. /

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