11th Indian American in the last 15 years !!

A 13-year-old New York boy has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee with the Yiddish word " knaidel ".

Correctly spelling the German-derived word for a doughy ball served in soup :

Arvind Mahankali outlasted 11 others in two hours of televised competition to win $30,000  8)

                         

Hindi and German are similar