Itsasmallworld, when you say no one alive around you speaks it, you mean.... ?
Afrikaans has "more" (capped O) that means both.
Strangely, the Hebrew word for "morning" (boker) is very similar to the Arabic word for "tomorrow" (bukra), but neither of these means both!
babyg, I mean none in my family or close friends do speak it nowadays. thegeneration who spoke it died mostly or are not in a situation to remember.. or maybe they remember it better than Spanish since that is what elder do?
I wonder if there is any language in which the word for "tomorrow" does not derive from a word meaning "morning". (And if so, what the word for "tomorrow" in that language does derive from.)
#22 in Russian and several other slav languages, tomorrow is "zavtra". No idea of the origin.
In Hindi, tomorrow and yesterday are both "kal". You have to lok at the verb tense to work out which.
Morning is "subeh".
Yes, but this "kal" thing is a bugger for travellers. In most Indo-european languages, tenses are complicated and poorly covered by phrase books. So when I travel I end up creating pidgin versions of languages where all verbs are in the present tense and time indicated by adverbs. "I buy this camera last week", "I pay hotel bill tomorrow". That doesn't work in Hindi, you haver to master the tenses or endure frequent misunderstandings.
Are you studying Hindi? do you go often to India? )is not the same than Urdu which I "think" is spoken in Pakistan?
#28, I made some effort to study Punjabi, which is similar to Hindi, for a trip last year. Here's some pics of our trip. The boys are all mine; we wnet with another familywho have 2 daughters. :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithfamily1/3559586872/in/set-72157618677197210/
I'm the one in a yellow turban. I've been to India a few times on business, more or less mastered the alphabets (punjabi + devanagari, they're pretty similar) and have a vocab, I guess of 500 words. OK for impressing colleagues and clients - most UK visitors manage only "namaste" - but not exactly serious study.