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		fuzztester on Sept 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Are any words the same in all languages? Nahi in Hindi Naahi or Nako in Marathi Naa in Gujarati Illai in Tamil Illaa in Kannada Allaa in Malayalam (both are palindromes :) Naa in Bengali etc. https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=gu&text=no&op=transla...

I_am_uncreative on Sept 8, 2023 [–]

Well, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, and Gujarati are all Indo European, interestingly enough.

Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam are all Dravidian.

fuzztester on Sept 12, 2023 | [–]

All of those have some Sanskrit words in them, though. And probably vice versa.

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