ACLHIU052
Elaborations
- understanding key influences and stages of development of Hindi over time and through different cultural influences
- exploring the relationship between Hindi and English across different historical and cultural contexts up to today
- identifying changes to contemporary forms of Hindi due to the influence of globalisation, technology and intercultural relationships
- identifying Hindi words derived from other languages, such as चश्मा, borrowed from Persian, क्षेत्र directly from Sanskrit versus खेत from Hindi via Pali/Prakrit
- recognising the influence of Sanskrit on Hindi and other languages, for example, by identifying Sanskrit words adopted and adapted in different ways in different languages
- identifying influences from other languages in their own/their family’s use of Hindi, for example, the use of terms associated with social media, popular culture and technology स्क्रीन, माउस
- understanding that all languages change in response to changing circumstances, for example, the addition of new terms for new inventions or experiences, word-borrowing from other languages or, as in the case of Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages, the reversal of language loss through revival and retrieval programs