4000+ Yiddish - Hindi Hindi - Yiddish Vocabulary
Title | 4000+ Yiddish - Hindi Hindi - Yiddish Vocabulary PDF eBook |
Author | Gilad Soffer |
Publisher | Soffer Publishing |
Pages | 150 |
Release | |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN |
""4000+ Yiddish - Hindi Hindi - Yiddish Vocabulary" - is a list of more than 4000 words translated from Yiddish to Hindi, as well as translated from Hindi to Yiddish. Easy to use- great for tourists and Yiddish speakers interested in learning Hindi. As well as Hindi speakers interested in learning Yiddish.
Borrowed Words
Title | Borrowed Words PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Durkin |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2014-01-24 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0191667064 |
The rich variety of the English vocabulary reflects the vast number of words it has taken from other languages. These range from Latin, Greek, Scandinavian, Celtic, French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian to, among others, Hebrew, Maori, Malay, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, andYiddish. Philip Durkin's full and accessible history reveals how, when, and why. He shows how to discover the origins of loanwords, when and why they were adopted, and what happens to them once they have been. The long documented history of English includes contact with languages in a variety of contexts, including: the dissemination of Christian culture in Latin in Anglo-Saxon England, and the interactions of French, Latin, Scandinavian, Celtic, and English during the Middle Ages; exposure to languages throughout the world during the colonial era; and the effects of using English as an international language of science. Philip Durkin describes these and other historical inputs, introducing the approaches each requires, from the comparative method for the earliest period to documentary and corpus research in the modern. The discussion is illustrated at every point with examples taken from a variety of different sources. The framework Dr Durkin develops can be used to explore lexical borrowing in any language. This outstanding book is for everyone interested in English etymology and in loanwords more generally. It will appeal to a wide general public and at the same time offers a valuable reference for scholars and students of the history of English.
The Dao of Being Jewish and Other Stories
Title | The Dao of Being Jewish and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Irene Shaland |
Publisher | GTA Books |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2023-01-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1733624597 |
“This book is a collection of Jewish survival stories and fascinating tales. This is not a conventional travel guide: this book will shine a light on the history of 10 Jewish communities in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Together with the author, you will visit incredible places and meet the Jews of today.” (GTA Books) Two and a half millennia ago, a small party of Jews explored new trading routes for King Solomon, settled in the south of India, and lived there peacefully until today. Similarly, during the ancient Roman period, many Jewish merchants traveled to China over the Silk Route and some made it their permanent home. Also, before the Edict of Expulsion in 1492, Sicily was home to over 50 Jewish communities, possibly numbering 50,000 people. So, how did the Diaspora bring these wandering Jews to so many places around the globe? And why did Jews live happily in India and China for centuries and not experience antisemitism, while the story of the Jews in Europe went from persecution and massacres to unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust? Finally, why do we see the rise of antisemitism and violence again in the 21st century? You will find answers to these questions and much more in the current edition of Irene Shaland's artfully illustrated book The Dao of Being Jewish and Other Stories. She collected these fascinating stories while visiting ten countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa and interviewing the locals in their homes, synagogues, and even cemeteries. Now, Irene Shaland's book, replete with her husband's photos, takes you on your own exciting journey of discovery from Austria and the Czech Republic to Scandinavia, from India and China to Sicily and Sardinia, and from East Africa to Stalinist Russia.
Storied Words
Title | Storied Words PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Jeske |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2004-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0595313760 |
From alphabet to zeugma Storied Words reveals the picturesque stories of 1,000 words that we use to talk about writing. You will learn about: The actual pictures behind our alphabet letters (e.g., "A", the inverted head of an ox; "B," a two-chambered house; "Z," a sword and shield) The surprising common origin of grammar and glamour The literal meanings of our rhetorical devices The "meaningless chatter" in jargon's ancestry The picturesque origins of the words we use to talk about style The "mock song" of parody How and why the librarian of the great ancient library of Alexandria gave us the komma, the kolon, and the periodos Each chapter begins with an introductory essay followed by alphabetized discussions of individual words. Chapter topics include the writer's tools, patterns of arrangement, style, rhetorical choices, grammar, writers in academe, and publishing. Storied Words is chock full of quotations and anecdotes from writers throughout history; it also contains an essay on the history of the English vocabulary.
Urdu/Hindi: An Artificial Divide
Title | Urdu/Hindi: An Artificial Divide PDF eBook |
Author | Abdul Jamil Khan |
Publisher | Algora Publishing |
Pages | 838 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0875864392 |
In a blow against the British Empire, Khan suggests that London artificially divided India's Hindu and Muslim populations by splitting their one language in two, then burying the evidence in obscure scholarly works outside the public view. All language is political -- and so is the boundary between one language and another. The author analyzes the origins of Urdu, one of the earliest known languages, and propounds the iconoclastic views that Hindi came from pre-Aryan Dravidian and Austric-Munda, not from Aryan's Sanskrit (which, like the Indo-European languages, Greek and Latin, etc., are rooted in the Middle East/Mesopotamia, not in Europe). Hindi's script came from the Aramaic system, similar to Greek, and in the 1800s, the British initiated the divisive game of splitting one language in two, Hindi (for the Hindus) and Urdu (for the Muslims). These facts, he says, have been buried and nearly lost in turgid academic works. Khan bolsters his hypothesis with copious technical linguistic examples. This may spark a revolution in linguistic history! Urdu/Hindi: An Artificial Divide integrates the out of Africa linguistic evolution theory with the fossil linguistics of Middle East, and discards the theory that Sanskrit descended from a hypothetical proto-IndoEuropean language and by degeneration created dialects, Urdu/Hindi and others. It shows that several tribes from the Middle East created the hybrid by cumulative evolution. The oldest groups, Austric and Dravidian, starting 8000 B.C. provided the grammar/syntax plus about 60% of vocabulary, S.K.T. added 10% after 1500 B.C. and Arabic/Persian 20-30% after A.D. 800. The book reveals Mesopotamia as the linguistic melting pot of Sumerian, Babylonian, Elamite, Hittite-Hurrian-Mitanni, etc., with a common script and vocabularies shared mutually and passed on to I.E., S.K.T., D.R., Arabic and then to Hindi/Urdu; in fact the author locates oldest evidence of S.K.T. in Syria. The book also exposes the myths of a revealed S.K.T. or Hebrew and the fiction of linguistic races, i.e. Aryan, Semitic, etc. The book supports the one world concept and reveals the potential of Urdu/Hindi to unite all genetic elements, races and regions of the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent. This is important reading not only for those interested to understand the divisive exploitation of languages in British-led India's partition, but for those interested in: - The science and history of origin of Urdu/Hindi (and other languages) - The false claims of linguistic races and creation - History of Languages and Scripts - Language, Mythology and Racism - Ancient History and Fossil Languages - British Rule and India's Partition.
Dictionary Catalog of the Jewish Collection
Title | Dictionary Catalog of the Jewish Collection PDF eBook |
Author | New York Public Library. Reference Department |
Publisher | |
Pages | 960 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Jewish literature |
ISBN |
All About Everything
Title | All About Everything PDF eBook |
Author | DK |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2014-05-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1465436375 |
All About Everything is the ultimate, unputdownable almanac for children. Containing an exciting collection of facts for kids, this vibrant and visual reference book shows you everything you need to know! All About Everything contains a diverse mix of topics, presented in dazzling, colorful, child-friendly style with lively, informative text. From dinosaurs and animals to history and space, this highly illustrated collection of information brings together material from DK's popular One Million Things series and is packed with fun and interesting facts on every topic imaginable.