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  • The usual ingredients are aatop rice, ground glass, a spice called taal magna, a resin-like material called ranamastaki, a fragrant cardamom-like spice called tosh, powdered ruby and lapis lazuli and, in some cases, even diamond dust.

    The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage 2010

  • The battle forms part of a rear-guard action by conservatives to defend their "taal," or tongue, in privileged bastions - the military, civil service, schools - where it held sway under apartheid.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • At any rate, it was the habit of Henri Marais, who was excessively religious, to read his chapter of the Bible (which it is, or was, the custom of the Boers to spell out every morning, should their learning allow them to do so), not in the "taal" or patois Dutch, but in good old French.

    Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • And throughout the concert, when the two mandolinists weren't playing, they counted the taal or rhythm with sinuous hand movements.

    In concert: U. Shrinivas at Millennium Stage 2011

  • A. van Delden, “De taal van de hemel,” Bijbel en Wetenschap 24 1979: 22–23.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • A. van Delden, “De taal van de hemel,” Bijbel en Wetenschap 24 1979: 22–23.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • And throughout the concert, when the two mandolinists weren't playing, they counted the taal or rhythm with sinuous hand movements.

    Music review: Kennedy Center 'Maximum India' festival opener U. Srinivas 2011

  • A. van Delden, “De taal van de hemel,” Bijbel en Wetenschap 24 1979: 22–23.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • A. van Delden, “De taal van de hemel,” Bijbel en Wetenschap 24 1979: 22–23.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • Ik ben benieuwd hoe je ‘klinkt’ in het Nederlands, hoewel ik toch denk dat ik je liever in het Engels lees … In elk geval gefeliciteerd met je boek (in welke taal dan ook)!

    Een leven, een liefde, een weblog 2008

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