This is an Indo-European concoction, derived from avancer, French for "to advance, " and the word sthapna, which means "well grounded" in Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language.
All the young people in the village speak the language, a rarity among American Indian tribes.
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We know that the language of the research was actually in a language called Bengali which is a pretty standard one for Indian research scientists to use.
His father cited a premium on education and language as reasons for the spate of Indian-American winners.
Even to communicate with people in other Indian states, you need to know either the local language or English.
Its exterior walls are imprinted with that newspaper's reports (in both English and an Indian language) about events that led to the forced relocation of Cherokees.
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Since you cannot learn multiple Indian languages, English has to be used as the link language.
But Kunjamon is from a new and fast growing community from south India who have come quickly in large numbers, they are Catholics and speak a different language so they don't have too much in common with the established Indian community.
It has the English language which helps to link it with California's Silicon Valley and Indian high-tech and great universities.
Mr Cameron said there was no limit on the number of Indian students that could come to British universities, as long as they had an English language qualification and a place to study.
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We are a unique nation, unique for refusing to reduce Indian-ness to a single language, religion, or ideology, unique in affirming and celebrating the staggering diversity found within our borders (and beyond them).
On a recent trip to India, I spent a few days in Chennai (formerly Madras, the city where Macaulay landed), where the ubiquity of English-language bookstores testifies to a kind of symbiotic relationship with Anglo-American enthusiasm for Indian literature.
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