The Oxford English Dictionary has recognised 70 new Indian words from Telugu, Urdu, Tamil, Hindi and Gujarati including the word 'Anna'(Elder brother in Tamil).
A few other words added to the dictionary are "Achcha", "Bapu", "Bada Din", "Bachcha", "Surya Namaskar", according to a report by Danica Salazar, OED World English Editor.
"Seventy words originating from and chiefly used in Indian English have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in this latest update," Salazar writes.
A lot of words based on food and relationships have got place in the dictionary.
Salazar writes,"Indian speech etiquette features a complex system of kinship terms and terms of address, in which age, gender, status, and family relationships are marked by a highly specific vocabulary with no direct equivalents in English.This lexical gap is filled by borrowing such words from Indian languages (abba, anna, bapu, chacha, didi, mata), or adapting existing English words (cousin brother, cousin sister)."
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Salazar has also written about how the latest update in Oxford "gives a flavour of linguistic diversity".
"India is a vastly multilingual nation, and the many Indian loanwords in this OED update give a flavour of this linguistic diversity, as they originate from some of India’s most widely spoken languages: Hindi (bapu, chup), Marathi (vada), Bengali (didi), Panjabi (jhuggi, tappa), Tamil (Anna), and Urdu (abba, gosht)."
Four updates are published by the OED every year in March, June, September, and December respectively . More than 1,000 new words, senses and subentries have been added to OED in the 2017 September update, including words like worstest and fungivorous, reported The Times of India.
