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Why do Chinese and Hindi have more terms for relatives than English does?

Such features have nothing to do with cultures being more or less "family-oriented", but may reveal something about social structure. Numerous societies distinguish relatives based on ...
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Why do Chinese and Hindi have more terms for relatives than English does?

Kinship terms tend to reflect past social structures. Thus Chinese maintains a sharp distinction between relatives on the mother's side (cognates) and relatives on the father's side (agnates) because ...
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IAST transliteration of ड़ and ढ़ of Devanagari

The primary reason is that IAST was designed for the classical Indic languages which don't have those consonants. The diacritic nukta was introduced in more modern times. The conventional neo-IAST ...
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what does devanagari "RTSNY" (a conjunct consonent) look like? and what frequently used words (if any) does it occur in?

It looks like र्त्स्न्य, and Google keyboard happily generated it. Searching for it turns up the Sanskrit word कार्त्स्न्य n. (-त्र्स्न्यं) The whole, all, entire. See here.
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What commonly used words, if any, does devanagari "म्क्ब्श" (mkbsha) actually occur in?

You can compose fairly long conjuncts like ल्ग्म्ब्क्ष्र = lgmbkṣra, which is just a made-up sequence. Sanskrit allows some interesting clusters, whereas Hindi and other modern Indic languages have a ...
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The easiest model for mapping Hindi oblique case onto Slavic languages' case systems

Your understanding is quite decent. The oblique case in Hindi is used before postpositions which correspond to the case suffix in more richly inflected languages. Since the nominative requires no ...
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Sanskrit vs. Modern Hindi

There is no particular difference between the two modern theories except that they find different things to emphasize and different ways to relate them. Both can be confusing, if they don't happen to ...
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