Is this translation or transliteration?
Yesterday I was at Chennai airport. Thats where my wife saw this signage. I find this very interesting. I can not speak, read or write Tamil. But visually looks like, for a single word toilet, Tamil language has two words. Hindi language has a single word for toilet which is प्रसाधन / शौचालय.
Would love to collect such photographs for all Indian languages. I would really appreciate if you can send such photographs, mail them at harshadk03(at)gmail(dot)com. Meanwhile I'll also try and collect.
Here are few more examples
Mall in US, California
Mumbai Domestic Airport
Bangalore International Airport
[…] is, when we express the same meaning in various languages/scripts. You can find the post here. I took photograph of the restroom entrance (US and India). The reason I chose restroom entrance, […]
hmmm…good..keep observing such things..!
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