Bhashegalu: Hindi-Kannada

Har bhaasha ek pul hai. Prati bhaasheyoo ondu setuve. Every language is a bridge. Hindi is Indo-Aryan. Kannada is Dravidian. They are unrelated, yet Hindi speakers learning Kannada keep meeting familiar words. Bhashegalu maps that traffic: which words crossed, and which resemblances are accidents. 5,000 PAIRS, ON YOUR DEVICE Each pair has Hindi and Kannada scripts, romanizations, origins and noun genders, plus a plain statement of how the words relate. 3,332 pairs say the same thing in entirely different words. 1,667 genuinely share a word or a source: 855 through Sanskrit, 635 through English, 128 through Persian and Arabic, 13 through older Dravidian, 6 through Portuguese, 30 unsettled. That is 4,999 pairs, and one word standing alone: ಚಂಡೆ chande, a coastal Karnataka drum Hindi has no word for, because the drum does not travel. Search either language in either script, offline.…