Arabic questions about people in Chhattisgarhi
One listener and several listeners need different reference
Standard Arabic distinguishes singular, dual and plural address, with gender distinctions within the paradigm. Chhattisgarhi “तैं” and “तुमन” illustrate singular and plural listener reference in the grammar consulted. An Arabic dual addresses two people, so its quantity must be interpreted before the target pronoun construction is selected.
The source’s masculine-versus-feminine ending does not by itself select a target plural form. Separate the listener’s identity from the number of listeners. A question to one woman is not a group question merely because its Arabic morphology differs from a question to one man.
Target agreement must fit the chosen reference too. A stored Chhattisgarhi question should not retain a singular predicate after its listener expression has been changed to a group. Conversely, an Arabic source with no independent pronoun may still identify its addressees through verbal morphology; that information cannot be discarded because the pronoun is not written separately.
A child word need not specify a boy
The Chhattisgarhi description consulted identifies “लइका” as a word capable of referring to a boy or a girl. If the Arabic source uses a broadly intended child reference, adding a male-only interpretation in the target can narrow the message unnecessarily. Grammatical masculine form in Arabic and an explicit statement about biological sex are not always the same kind of information.
Where the source genuinely distinguishes a boy from a girl, the Chhattisgarhi pair “टूरा” and “टूरी” supplies a more explicit lexical contrast. Select it because the source distinction matters, not because every Arabic masculine noun must be translated with a male-person word.
This is useful in family and school messages. A request concerning a child’s document can leave sex irrelevant, while an instruction identifying one of two children may rely on it. Preserve the source reference and the purpose of the distinction without expanding an unspecified child into a new personal description.
Who and what ask for different answers
Chhattisgarhi “कोन” asks who, while “का” can ask what. An Arabic question requesting a person’s identity should not become a question about an object or action merely because both begin a short information request. Read the source question word and its predicate together.
A source asking who is going differs from one asking what somebody wants. The target question must request the same missing information, and its participant reference must still match the intended person. Swapping only a question word in a saved sentence can leave the rest of the clause describing the wrong event.
The target is Chhattisgarhi, even when the script looks familiar
Chhattisgarhi uses Devanagari in these materials, but it has its own pronoun forms, vocabulary and grammatical descriptions. Translating Arabic into a familiar Hindi sentence and labelling it Chhattisgarhi would not establish that the requested language was supplied.
Use the target’s actual forms for the chosen person, number and question type. The University curriculum recognises Chhattisgarhi grammatical study independently; its script is not a substitute for that linguistic distinction. For this direction, the useful checks are concrete: the same listener count, the same intended child reference and the same information being requested.
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