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Young Sherpa girls chewing bubble gum. Photographed by Robb Kendrick, 1992.
Scanned from the December 1992 volume of National Geographic Magazine
Retroflexification of place names in Marathi
I find it interesting how certain place names are pronounced with retroflex consonants in Marathi, even if they aren’t in the languages it borrowed them from, or the languages spoken in those regions:
Hindi भोपाल (Bhōpāl) → Marathi भोपाळ (Bhōpāḷ)
Hindi लद्दाख़ (Laddāx) → Marathi लडाख (Laḍākh)*
Nepali नेपाल (Nēpāl) → Marathi नेपाळ (Nēpāḷ)
Nepali तिब्बत (Tibbat) → Marathi तिबेट (Tibēṭ)*
Persian اتران (Irân) → Marathi इराण (Irāṇ)
Persian افغانستان (Afǧânestân) → Marathi अफगाणिस्तान (Afgāṇistān)
Contrastingly, Bhutan is called भुटान (Bhuṭān) in Nepali (and འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ ('Druk Gyal Khab) in Dzongkha), but भूतान (Bhūtān) in Marathi.
*Ladākh and Tibēṭ more likely come from their English names, Ladakh and Tibet (whose Indian English pronunciations can have retroflex consonants). Tibet is called Tibbat in Hindi-Urdu and Persian too. The Tibetan name for Tibet, བོད་ (Böd), is quite different, but is probably still the ultimate origin of Tibbat.
हिमालयको काखमा उभिँदा संसार एकछिन शान्त हुन्छ / Standing in the cradle of the Himalayas, the world feels quiet for a moment.
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alt desi discord server?!?!?!?
spread the word!!!! are you desi? are you alternative? then boy oh boy you're going to love S.A.C.C !!!
South Asian Counterculture Collective, otherwise known as SACC, is a discord community built for and by south asians. whether you grew up headbanging or youre a baby bat—come meet your people here!
we have events, we might open a d&d campaign for newbies, we have people from all over south asia sharing their favorite music, their art, and their interests all at once!!! YOU could be one of them too!!!
what are the requirements to join?:
BE SOUTH ASIAN, alternative, left-wing 13+
join us today by applying to our server HERE :3 uh oh...a lot of tags time...
Manaslu, Nepal. https://www.flickr.com/people/35504791@N00
A man dies. His body is not noticed for nearly a week. He was invisible to many, like the growing number of homeless Australia wide.
Lost to his family and lost to the world, a man dies.
His death quiet, unheralded.
He's not found for six days. Unnoticed even as thousands walk by.
This is no remote outpost. It's central Sydney, and as winter settles in, support services are warning that more deaths like this will happen.
Some are mothers who have fled arranged marriages and international students who would rather die of shame than tell their families.
They are homeless, like Bikram Lama, who The Guardian reported to be a former international student from Nepal. His death outside St James train station has shone a light on an invisible situation taking place on Australia's streets.
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