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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4328733.stm
A BBC journalist is urging helpful linguists to come forward to help solve a mystery - why the Hindi accent has so much in common with Welsh.
Sonia Mathur, a native Hindi speaker, had her interest sparked when she moved from India to work for the BBC in Wales - and found that two accents from countries 5,000 miles apart seemed to have something in common.
It has long been known that the two languages stem from Indo-European, the “mother of all languages” - but the peculiar similarities between the two accents when spoken in English are striking.
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One thing that always interested me was how Hindi speakers pick up English so easily and speak with idioms smoothly Whereas, my Asian wife and her cousins have a really hard time putting sentences together. The Hindi/English languages must be constructed similarly or we just think in the same patterns.
there are also similarities between Hinduism and the ancient Celtic religions. example, the “white horse”.