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On 9/24/07, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@hidden.email> wrote: > It basically means "(language of the) army camp" Huh. Cognate with "horde", apparently. Never would have guessed. > 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. And originally-originally it wasn't even that specific, it seems. > 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. Hm. I'd say, it does have a geographical connection, it just doesn't exactly match the boundary of the political entity most associated with it... -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@hidden.email>