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VOL. 11, ISSUE 8 (2024)
Cultural and linguistic links between Bharat and central Asia
Authors
Shahbaz Amil
Abstract
This paper highlighted the cultural and
linguistic links between Bharat and Central Asian Countries since the ancient
times. This is attested in Puranas and by also the fact that Taxila, the most
advanced Centre of Higher Education and Learning, was situated at the Silk
Route that connected India to the Central Asian countries. Because of this
regular trade contact and that of Muslim Invasion of India, culture and
languages of both regions got influenced mutually, which is a universal
sociolinguistic reality. Many times, it happened that an element enters the domain
of another language and comes back in the source language with minor
modification, like the word for the gate in the Central Asian region is darwaja
(that came from Persian dar) is also used in many of modern Indian languages,
which has originated from Sanskrit duar. There are hundreds of
terminologies used in Indian languages which are commonly used in most of
modern Central Asian languages, likes of payjama, rumal, shal, dushala,
pulao, achar etc. However, such influences are only at lexical level; there
is zero influence on morphological and syntactic level. There are many words
which have their equivalent in Sanskrit; they are now rarely used in modern
Indian languages. Here I would like to acknowledge support of ICSSR for
contribution of this article.
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Pages:116-119
How to cite this article:
Shahbaz Amil "Cultural and linguistic links between Bharat and central Asia". International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development, Vol 11, Issue 8, 2024, Pages 116-119
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