User talk:Luna Netto
December 2023
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Hello, I'm RetroCosmos. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Malayalam, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. RetroCosmos (talk) 15:48, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
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- Hello! I'm sorry for the late reply, but I'm a native speaker of Malayalam, and I can attest to the fact that modern Malayalam vocab is still heavily influenced by Sanskrit!
- Take this translation of what I just said for example:
- നമസ്കാരം! മറുപടി മറുപടി വൈകിയതിൽ ക്ഷമ ചൊദിക്കുനു, മലയാളം എന്റെ മാതൃഭാഷ ആന്, പക്ഷേ ആധുനിക മലയാളം പദാവലി ഇപ്പോഴും സംസ്കൃതത്തിന്റെ സ്വാധീനത്തിലാണ് എന്ന് എനിക്ക് സാക്ഷ്യപ്പെടുത്താൻ കഴിയും!
- Transliterated as (with Sanskrit loanwords and roots emboldened*):
- namaskāram! marupadi vaīkiyathin kśema ćōdhikkunu, malayāļam ente mathr̥bhaśa ānŭ, pakśe ādhunika malayāļam padhāvali ippozhum samskr̥thatthinte svadhīnatthilānņŭ ennŭ ennikŭ sākśyappedutthān kazhiyum!
- To eliminate translation bias - i.e. to translate it in a way that would be used in everyday Malayalam - I used google translate to convert the paragraph, and I had my mother correct any errors.
- Admittedly, Malayalam is in many ways similar to English, where you can choose between an abundance of Germanic or Romance synonyms,
- but this translation is done with as directly as possible, foregoing any bells, whistles, or excessive formality**.
- As we can see, over half of the words used here are Sanskrit loanwords, therefore I believe that my point that modern Malayalam is still heavily reliant on those Sanskritisms that are described as "seldom used."
- I used wiktionary as a source for the etymologies for these words.
- For instance, words like pakśe, ćodhiyam (as in ćodhikkunu), sakśyappeduka (as in sākśyappedutthān) are all rather informal, with pakśe rarely being used outside of colloquial speech.
- I used wiktionary as a source for the etymologies for these words.
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- On a personal note, I noticed that you're Singaporean on your page, and I used to live there too! Small world! The malay word Singapura also derives from Sanskrit, which i think is awesome :)
- Luna Netto (talk) 20:27, 10 March 2024 (UTC)