Looking at the words within the Rommany language it is viable to say that much of them have their origin from Prakrit that is unique to the Punjabi region of Northwest India and Northern Pakistan. The quickest way to confirm that the Romani language is greatly influenced by Punjabi regional Prakrit is to compare it to modern Punjabi, which has also derived from the same Prakrit. There are certain words within Punjabi that are of Sanskrit origin but have changes unique only to Punjabi. Examples of these words are Phrah meaning ‘brother’, Phehn meaning ‘sister’, Khar meaning ‘house’, Kura meaning ‘horse’ and Oteh meaning ‘over there’. [‘Ph’ is pronounced as ‘p’ with a slight ‘h’ after it and not as the English ‘ph’ that has a similar sound as ‘f’] The equivalent words in Hindi and most other Indo Aryan languages are Bhai, Bahin, Ghar, Gura and Udahr. Now if we look at the same words in the Romani language then they are Phrahl, Phehn, Kher, Kuro (meaning ‘Colt’) and lastly Oteh. From this we can observe that the Romani words are the same as the words that are unique to Punjabi and therefore must have come via Prakrit of the region in which Punjabi developed. https://youtube/watch?v=LCUv9W0ViRc
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 05:47:51 +0000
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