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Mark J. Reed skrev:
> What is the history of the name "Urdu", which you rejected
> as a counterexample?
It basically means "(language of the) army camp" and
originally designated the Persian and Turkic influenced
version of the dialect of the Delhi region which developed
among the military and bureaucracy of the Muslim rulers of
northern India. I rejected the name as a counterexample in
as much as it has no geographical connexion at all, although
it has a connexion to a social group.
/BP 8^)>
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