The Hindustani Language // हिन्दी // اردو
Channel: caffeinated linguistics
Date: 2020-07-13

so here's another cool thing which I wanted to fit into the video but couldn't figure out how

Urdu has a thing called Imaala in which if a word ends with 'a' it's often raised to 'e', like from 'kamra' to 'kamre' (room) - this can happen with proper nouns too, as in "Kolkatta" becomes "Kolkatte", or in a sentence:

"Quette ke sēb mashhuur hai"
Quetta's apples are famous

the cool thing about the proper nouns thing though is that it only happens to places which are influential to Urdu or have a similar culture to the people who speak Urdu, for example "Dhaka" would become "Dhake", but something like Florida doesn't become "Floride"

thought that'd be fun to share

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