#Khowar

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#IndoAryan faunal etymology!#Khowar òhc /ôht͡s/ ('bear'), loan from a #Nuristani language like #Waigali.Although cognate to #Sanskrit ŕ̥kṣaḣ, the Khowar form is probably not descended from it, i.e., not native to

bìpersonal pronoun— I (first person singular) A proposed etymology for bì is from Skt. vayam "we" Bì is odd among IA first person singular pronouns in that it doesn't descend

The lost written scripts of Pakistan - a threadBetween 1868 to 1947, the official written script for Sindhi was the Khudabadi script. Khudabadi script was in widespread use between 16th

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