Umbrella term for dialects that include Hindi, Urdu, and other Hindi-belt languages.
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Why is the English phoneme /θ/ pronounced like /t/ in Indian accents but /s/ in Chinese accents?
The dental fricatives (/θ/ and /ð/; spelled with th) often present a challenge to non-native learners of English. Depending on the speaker's native language, different phonemes may be substituted. In ...
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Are Hindi “Bigul” (बिगुल) and English “Bugle” cognates?
In Hindi, Bigul (बिगुल) (IPA /bigul/) is a bugle-like instrument, if they are cognates can someone also tell me how they might have been formed.!
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Where can I find a free text corpus for the Hindi language?
I need a text corpus for my NLP project in Hindi, however all the corpora I found are not free for downloading. Is there any free annotated Hindi text corpus at all? If yes, where can I find it?
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Etymological origins of the Hindi word Afeem
I have been trying to find the origins of the Hindi word अफ़ीम "Afeem". It means opium.
The Rajpal Hindi Shabdakosh gives the origin of "afeem" as Arabic:
https://hi.oxforddictionaries.com/परिभाषा/...
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Where can I find training data for dialects of Hindi?
I am working on a NLP project that aims at identifying different dialects of Hindi language. My über goal is to generate dialogs in once the program identifies which dialect is given.
I tried ...
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Inanimate pronouns in Hindi
Could someone give me some examples of inanimate pronouns in Hindi? I can't come up with any example myself. I was reading this paper:
Gazetteer Method for Resolving Pronominal Anaphora in Hindi ...
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For a toddler who has just begun to speak, is Hindi easier to speak as compared to English?
Hindi is my native language. I can write English well, and can speak English to some reasonable extent.
In order to teach the toddler English, I have been speaking English to her ever since she was ...
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How different are Urdu and Hindi?
My family are Pakistani, but I never learned Urdu as a child. I'd like to learn a little, primarily as a means of keeping this part of my heritage alive. However, the pragmatist in me realizes that ...
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Are Armenian գունդ (gund) and Sanskrit गिन्दुक (ginduka) related?
I was just looking at the words for "ball" in many languages.
I noticed that Armenian has a word գունդ gund and Hindustani has a word गेंद / گیند gẽnd.
I didn't spot any other language with a ...
