Canal Street - New Orleans
1880s - Canal Street - New Orleans, USA
Punjabi and Romanian
It may come as a surprise to many, but Punjabi has in its vocabulary over 2000 words which are nearly identical to Romanian. While many will simply attribute to this to both languages being being part the Indo-European group of languages, the relationship is far deeper and more interesting than this. The earliest clue that we have to work with actually comes from Greek Historian Herodotus, who stated that the only people nearly as numerous than the Indians were the Thracians. The Thracians just like the Indo-Aryans of North India had numerous tribes, and one these tribes settled Romania. Yet, a similar or related tribe also settled in the Punjab region of India in prehistory. The idea did not seem far fetched to Ancient Greek historian Strabo. He would accidentally make a connection between the term, “Massagetae”, from the Pahlavi Language of Ancient Iran, and realize that it meant “Great Getae People”, even today with a little bit of understanding of Modern Punjabi we can understand t...
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