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Re:Who Invented the Alphabet? by andsoitis on Friday September 29, 2023 @09:48PM (#37712137)
> khaki

From Urdu from Persian.

Persian and Sanskrit are closely related and thought to have originated from a common Proto-Indo-Iranian language from about 4000 years ago.

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Re:Who Invented the Alphabet? by dredmorbius on Saturday September 30, 2023 @12:43AM (#37712822)
Fair point as I'd chosen to use Hindi (culture) rather than India (geographic region), though of course India itself derives from Hindi (the word).

A fuller set of candidate languages, from Wikipedia: Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil, Teluga, Bengali, Assamese, Bengali, and Marathi.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_India...>

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Re:Who Invented the Alphabet? by marktani on Sunday October 01, 2023 @08:24AM (#37725263)
You're still missing Persian, which is the direct origin of Khaki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaki#Etymology

Urdu/Hindi and probably lots of other languages in that cultural region have plenty of loanwords from Persian

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Re:Who Invented the Alphabet? by dredmorbius on Sunday October 01, 2023 @01:24PM (#37728210)
I'm sure someone will pitch in with specific sub-dialects as well shortly.

I'd reported languages based on Wikipedia's citing. That's publicly-editable, and if you have sourced references the links I'd provided can be updated.

See also note 1: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17436048>

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