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Other ancient Turkic languages, as Arabic and Malayalam in India, were sometimes written using Syriac (Semitic) characters.
Begum `high-ranking Muslim lady' derives ultimately from Eastern Turkic, while cowrie `a type of sea shell' comes from Tamil or Malayalam kavati via Hindi kauri or kaudi . Two Hindi loanwords have their origin in Europe: ayah `native maid or nurse,' the Hindi version of Portuguese aia , and pulton or pultun `infantry regiment,' adapted from paltan , the Hindi version of English battalion .
Portuguese was the immediate source of four words (the Portuguese, it will be recalled, were also in India for several centuries, losing their colony of Goa only in December 1961): copra , from Hindi khopra via Malayalam koppara; machila or machilla `hammock slung from a pole,' from Hindi manzil (borrowed unchanged from Arabic) via Tamil macil or mancil; tael `unit of weight,' from Hindi tola (adapted from Sanskrit tula ) via Malay tahil ; and jambolan `Java plum,' the English version of Portuguese jambulao , from Hindi jambul .
It is no exaggeration when I say that I prefer English to my native tongue, Malayalam, the language spoken by the people of Kerala, a southern state in India, the language which has entered the pages of the Guinness Book of Records as the longest palindromic language in the world.
I had already learnt that although there is no idiomatic way in English of asking such a question, it is very common in Malayalam and also, I think, in other Indian vernaculars.
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