That will be the moment for all of us to invest in the great diversity of love words (iStock)When you meet with an accident, you rush to the nearest hospital. Not being able to take the language of disaffection any more, I decided for myself to explore if the words for peace and love have altogether disappeared from human languages. For ‘love’, relation, affection, the sTodpa language of Himachal Pradesh has che-pa, ya-sha, nying-ja, kha-rog, mngo-she, ya-to, rog-po, za-bo. If one were to compile a collection of words for ‘love’ and ‘peace’ in the 1,380 odd ‘mother tongues’ listed in the 2011 census, we may get to a good ten thousand terms with which Indian people designate relation. That will be the moment for all of us to invest in India’s great diversity of love words.

Source: The Telegraph May 03, 2019 03:33 UTC