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To: Dilbert San Diego

More likely they travelled from the near east to Wales.


7 posted on 07/23/2011 8:10:25 PM PDT by Silver Sabre
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To: Silver Sabre

Searching for the Welsh-Hindi link

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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11 posted on 07/23/2011 8:19:09 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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