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Punjabi
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Read moreWhat do you know about the origin of the language spoken by the Germanic tribes who arrived in Britain in the 5th century?,”- Angles
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Read moreWhy are there different consonants in the past tense paradigm of the ModE verb ‘to be'(was/were)?
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Read morepardesi,”””from beyond the country””, foreigner (including someone from a distant town or village). These days frequently applied to Indians who have gone “”abroad”” to live (see for example film “”Pardes””, or song during titles in DDLJ: “”ghar aa jaa pardesi, tera des bulaye re”” “”Come home pardesi, your country is calling””, or the song “”Pardesi”” in the recent film “”Dev.D””)> IN OUR CLASS: pardesi refers to students who consider themselves to be of INdian acestry
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Read moreWhat is Proto-Indo-European? When and where was it spoken? What does the term ‘proto’ mean?,”- Proto: a reconstruced language; no documents exist – Proto-Indo-European: the language from which many languages in Europe and South Asia emerged- When: based on the expansion and culture from ca 5000 – 3500 B.C.- Where: ->determind on basis of cognates: apple, bear, hazel No: ocean, olive – > northwest of the Caucasus; north of Caspian Sea -> ca. 4000 B.C. began expansion to Balkan and nothern Europe (later to Iran
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Read moreWhat is the typical Germanic stress pattern?
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Read moreWhat are strong/weak verbs? What is the weak/strong adjective declension?,”- weak/strong verbs: o strong: inherited from PIE form past by changing their stem vowel (sing,sang,sung) o weak: innovation in Proto-Germanic form their past by adding a dental suffix (-ed, -od, -d
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