New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted India\u2019s linguistic and cultural connection with the Nordic countries, while speaking at a joint press conference with leaders of Nordic countries in Oslo. Modi repeatedly used the word \u201csambandh” \u2014connection, relationship, or bond in Hindi \u2014 and pointed out that the word carried a remarkably similar meaning in several Nordic languages.<\/p>\n
The word, like many others, originate from the shared heritage of Indo-European group of languages.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, I used the word \u2018sambandh\u2019 many times. In several Nordic languages, the word \u2018sambandh\u2019 means connection, relations, a bond. In Hindi too, \u2018sambandh\u2019 carries the same meaning. This is not just a similarity of words, it reflects the closeness of our thoughts. Let us deepen the bonds between us in every field and make the India-Nordic partnership a model of shared prosperity, innovation, and a sustainable future,” Modi said.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the event, Iceland Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir noted that \u2018sambandh\u2019 was a \u201cpurely Icelandic word.” \u201cThere are so many things that we can do together and I just have to say I love that word \u2018sambandh\u2019. it is such a purely Icelandic word and people will be very devoted to this language, Prime Minister Modi, because this is what we need. They need more \u2018sambandh\u2019 today,\u201d Frostadottir said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted India\u2019s linguistic and cultural connection with the Nordic countries, while speaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[85],"tags":[1468,157,156],"class_list":["post-86505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oslo","tag-nordic-countries","tag-norway","tag-oslo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116602810418678125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}