Hindi must get official language status at UN, says Rajnath Singh

[Hindustani78]

Hindi is understood, but not used for written communication.

Pakistan uses Urdu, not Hindi. It may sound similar to non-natives, but the native speakers can distinguish betwee the two. The written form is completely unrelated.
The UAE also doesn't use Hindi. For example: Dubai's public transportation issues instructional media in Arabic, English and Urdu, not Hindi.
Majority of South Africans do not speak, or even understand, Hindi.

India, a proposing country, would need to provide sufficient financial resources to the UN to cover the additional expenditure on interpretation, translation, printing and duplication of documents and related infrastructural costs.

"This according to conservative estimates, could cost in excess of USD 14 million (app Rs 82.6 crore) per year. This is based on the decision of the UN General Assembly in 1973 to include Arabic as a working and official language of General Assembly and adding an inflation component of 2-3 per cent per annum on a compounded basis.

"No special weightage is given by the UN for population, size of the country of its Gross Domestic Product. The basic principle of the UN is the sovereign equality of all nations, whether big or small,"

 

[Luca1]

Currently, the official language of Indian government is English. If no country use Hindi as the governing language, why is it needed in UN?

 

[Arya Desa]

How many countries communicate in Hindi (read and write) apart from India?

pakistan does. So that's two at least

 

[Soumitra]

Currently, the official language of Indian government is English. If no country use Hindi as the governing language, why is it needed in UN?

The official language is both English and Hindi
Languages with official status in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[dravidianhero]

Hindi is understood, but not used for written communication.

Pakistan uses Urdu, not Hindi. It may sound similar to non-natives, but the native speakers can distinguish betwee the two. The written form is completely unrelated.
The UAE also doesn't use Hindi. For example: Dubai's public transportation issues instructional media in Arabic, English and Urdu, not Hindi.
Majority of South Africans do not speak, or even understand, Hindi.

Hindi and Urdu are one and the same...no amount of chest thumping from anybody would convince linguists they are two different languages.

 

[dravidianhero]

India, a proposing country, would need to provide sufficient financial resources to the UN to cover the additional expenditure on interpretation, translation, printing and duplication of documents and related infrastructural costs.

"This according to conservative estimates, could cost in excess of USD 14 million (app Rs 82.6 crore) per year. This is based on the decision of the UN General Assembly in 1973 to include Arabic as a working and official language of General Assembly and adding an inflation component of 2-3 per cent per annum on a compounded basis.

"No special weightage is given by the UN for population, size of the country of its Gross Domestic Product. The basic principle of the UN is the sovereign equality of all nations, whether big or small,"

No need of making Hindi official language of UN if that would cost us so much money...we are fine with english and moreover not all indians relate themselves with hindi.

 

[damiendehorn]

English is the defacto international language (followed by spanish, french, portugese, and chinese)...Some Bangladeshis understand basic spoken hindi (15%-20%), but the vast majority don't and though bollywood is still popular in Bangladesh, English is growing at a far faster rate.

 

[manlion]

UN should be cautious - promoting Hindi = to promoting rape

 

[Ragnar]

Kya bakwas hai yaar. Do something useful while you are in power. Bloody chillar party good at banning things and creating tensions.. Now Tamil Nadu will also demand equal status.

 

[manlion]

 

[Arya Desa]

I don't get why you south Indians are so insecure about Hindi.

 

[manlion]

Bhopal: Hindi not made national language due to regional political compulsions, says Rajnath

 

[dravidianhero]

I don't get why you south Indians are so insecure about Hindi.

He is not south Indian...a Sri lankan Tamil or false flagger

 

[dravidianhero]

Bhopal: Hindi not made national language due to regional political compulsions, says Rajnath

Nee engirindhu pesuraay? Unakku Tamil padikka varumaa? Hindi enraal unakku yen avala Veruppu?

 

[vsdoc]

Its pretty ridiculous when one needs to make out a case for making "official" a language that is spoken by one-seventh of all mankind.

The UN is all gas.