marathi

So no, my example does not answer your question, since they were exposed to only one language --- Marathi --- until 18 months.

Our older kid grew up speaking only Marathi at home.

Its also driven by xenophobia amongst the local marathi-speaking.

You've clearly not experienced Marathi pride, then?

According to Indian constitution there's no national language, but there are 22 scheduled languages including Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi etc.

So if I listen to a person speak and deduce that they are Marathi without telling them I plan to do so, I should be punished?

I've used it for Marathi and it's been pretty great.

Now that I think of it, my day to day Hindi and Marathi derive heavily from Western vocabulary - in cases even when there is a word for a concept/object we prefer to use the more popular Western words.

I've always heard it pronounced as "dalchini", in Hindi and three different regional languages (Bengali, Odia, and Marathi).

Sardar in Marathi also means the same thing - "Commander" or "Leader"

[5]: called jodakshar ("joined word") in Marathi [6]: Almost as common as having two side by side consonants in English.

[3]: called paimodi ("broken foot") in Marathi [4]: which is pretty rare in these languages.

Marathi/Hindi/Sanskrit (which use devanagari) have a bunch of basic consonants and some vowels (which can appear independently or as modifiers).

Its H-rsh, which means joy in Hindi/Marathi.

We speak three languages in our family --- Marathi, which is our native language, besides Hindi and English, which are both common throughout India.