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Karthik Venkatesh
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Hinglish is older than you think. The earliest instance of its use dates back to 1827
An excerpt from ‘10 Indian Languages and How They Came to Be’, by Karthik Venkatesh.
Karthik Venkatesh
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Pandemic. Quarantine. Vaccine. What are the origins of the normalised vocabulary under Covid-19?
An etymological journey into the past.
Karthik Venkatesh
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Will ‘coronavirus’ enter the vocabulary of Indian languages, as ‘plague’ did over 100 years ago?
How have the various languages in the country developed and accommodated words to name new epidemics?
Karthik Venkatesh
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