query: Where are you going?

[tasaku tsunoda]

Dear Colleagues,
   I heard that in Osaka area of Japan, a common greeting is (or was?):

Mookarimakka?
'Are you making any profit/money?'

Presumably this greeting is (or was?) used among merchants.

Best wishes,

-- 
角田太作


Tasaku Tsunoda

National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
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On 11/06/19 13:43, "Christopher P. Wilde" <chris_wilde at SALL.COM> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>A common greeting in Nepali (Indo-Aryan) is:
>
>    खाना खानुभयो?
>    [khana khanubhayo]
>    lit. "Have you eaten?"
>
>-Chris Wilde, Pokhara Nepal
>