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Ask any physician who has practised in India the Hindustani for "show the tongue," he will tell you jibh dikla,o, or zaban dikla,o; and if he was a man of discernment, he would use jibh with a Hindu, and zaban with a Musalman; but I believe he would be perfectly understood, whichever word he used to either party.
Novice; a distinction there is, but that is not it. The word zaban in Persian and Hindustani means both the fleshy member of the body, called the tongue, and also language or speech, just like our word "tongue," which has both significations. In the former sense it applies alike to man and beast; in the latter it is mere truism to say that it applies to man only.
The Muhammadans divide the world into seven climes, and suppose that a constellation presides over the destiny of each clime. A novice in the language would say, "Here a distinction seems to be drawn between the words zaban and jibh. Both signify 'tongue, but the former applies to men and the latter to animals." To this profound bit of criticism I should reply Not so fast, Mr.
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