Rajan vs Raja

James Wynn · 17 Apr 2009, 18:11 · from 2009-April.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:11:14 -0500
Subject: (urth) Rajan vs Raja
Message-ID: <8F107B5B7EB3464C9109364FC757E46C@eMachinePC>

>> There are quite a few modern languages descended from Sanskrit. In at 
>> least one of them -- Nepali -- "Rajan" is the ordinary nominative case 
>> that corresponds to Hindi "Raja".
>
> Ah! Then perhaps the culture of Gaon is Napalese.

According to wikipedia, "gaon" means "village" in Hindi, Marathi 
(central-east India), Assamese (west India). Is it a term in Nepalese as 
well?

J.

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