Nepali English

[Azis]

Can anyone recommend a language web site that is an English to Nepali dictionary?

thanks

 

[Ferrous Wheel]

anybody? I don't know nuthinn.

Keith

 

[Daniel Koster]

Marked as "under construction"

http://www.nepalresearch.org/dictionaries/nep_eng/nep_eng.pdf

but at 146 pages of free downloadable dictionary....not too bad.

 

[Daniel Koster]

Enter the English word and hit "Translate"

http://www.nepalhomepage.com/dictionary/

 

[Ferrous Wheel]

to work, Pen? I typed in 'Mother' and it spit out this:

mother -gf=_ cfdf, dftf, hggL, dfpm, ;'Ts]/L, cndftL -u|f=_, -g]=_ df, cfsf]{ u'0f pTkGg ug]{ u'0f -O=_, a"9Ldfpm

???

Keith

 

[Daniel Koster]

oops!

Forgot to say you need to download the Nepali Font first.

Here are a few:

http://www.nepalhomepage.com/reference/fonts/

 

[Daniel Koster]

Save the font to your ...windows/fonts/ folder and it will automatically be installed.

Dan

 

[Bill Martino]

mother = ama

When I get my new computer I'm going to install Nepali font.

 

[Daniel Koster]

Putting in "mother" should return this:

Bill - can you (or Yangdu, etc.) verify any of these?

 

[Daniel Koster]

Also, Bill - the website says that the font works OK on Windows 95. Just click on it and save to c:/windows/fonts

Dan

 

[Rusty]

Upom and Umom = pop and mom ( or was that Gramps and Gramms? ) in Hungarian. ) Always intrigued me where the Finno-Ugric language ultimately came from. Magyar - Magar?

We first find the Magyars meeting the Khazars in what was then Turkic ruled territory, and shortly after converting to Judaism and moving on the the Stepps of Hungary. Say around 400/500 C.E., and leaving circa 700 C.E.

But their oral history tells of them coming out of somewhere around Mongolia. Maybe Ben can help.

 

[Aardvark]

Oma and Opa are German for Gramps and Gramma. Not too far off.

 

[shappa]

This is an interesting site ...if you want to learn to cuss in different languages.
http://www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/

nepali only has two entries tho.. I'll let you look them up.

 

[Bill Martino]

looked them up. Top one is wrong -- one of the first swearwords (phrase?) I learned and I learned it right. Heard it too many times not to know it well.

 

[Ben Arown-Awile]

Originally posted by Rusty

We first find the Magyars...around 400/500 C.E., ...

But their oral history tells of them coming out of somewhere around Mongolia.

I really don’t know a thing about it, but I am especially full of bull right now so hear me roar !

Recent studies by Hungarian anthropologists point to the origin of the Magyars as the Xinjiang province of north-west China, traditionally known as the 'Uigur' region.

Although I don't know the details of the Hungarian studies, I have read one by an American anthropologist, Elizebeth Barber, a textile expert.

She analyzed textiles found in the graves of mummies, known as the "Caucasian Chinese" and found similarities to both Persian and Celtic weaving technique and patterns.

Since the graves predate the known Magyar history by at least a thousand years, the assumption is that they were traders of some sort who settled in the region before migrating.

The Persian connection would fit with Magyar oral tradition which claims them to be the descendants of Nimrod.

There are also many linguistic similarities with ancient Summerian. But given that the indigenous population of the Carpathian Valley in Hurgary migrated from the Mesopotamian region abound 7000 B.C., that doesn't prove much except it's difficult to trace ethnic origins linguistically because language is a dynamic body constantly absorbing new influences.

Maybe recent advances in DNA research will shed some light on the mystery.