ITBP jawans learn Chinese to avoid confusion with PLA

[mirage2K]

Its bollywood movies popular in china ? just wondering.



A LOT of Indians can speak 5 languages. I did not say it because it may appear like bragging. Even in pdf you will find several Indians who speak at least 5 languages.

Even i can speak or understand 5 languages English, Hindi, Marathi, Konkani and Tulu

 

[Sahasranama]

Even i can speak or understand 5 languages English, Hindi, Marathi, Konkani and Tulu

I meant, it would appear like Indians are bragging. ........this is embarrassing.

 

[mirage2K]

I meant, it would appear like Indians are bragging. ........this is embarrassing.

I know people who can speak 10 Indian languages...

 

[srshkmr]

What language is that in?

I can understand the word "area", I assume it means "area"?

yes your assumption is right .. Its in tamil and it means "It's our area dont dare to come in "

 

[Sahasranama]

actually,no.these are derived languages,just like Vulgar Latin(its the name of old latin) is mother language of Romance Languages,same goes for Sanskrit as well,which is mother language of Indo-Aryan Languages.

What kind of weird logic is this ? just because sanskrit is the mother language it should be deemed as dead ?

Malayalam even today is 80% sanskrit.

 

[GR!FF!N]

What kind of weird logic is this ? just because sanskrit is the mother language it should be deemed as dead ?

Malayalam even today is 80% sanskrit.

you don't understand what i've said.as nobody uses Sanskrit in everyday's life for speaking,it is considered as "Dead Language".but languages derived from that language may be used,but that doesn't make that "Dead Language's" status change..

read this.......

A language is often declared to be dead even before the last native speaker of the language has died. If there are only a few elderly speakers of a language remaining, and they no longer use that language for communication, then the language is effectively dead. A language that has reached such a reduced stage of use is generally considered moribund. Once a language is no longer a native language - that is, if no children are being socialised into it as their primary language - the process of transmission is ended and the language itself will not survive past the current generation. This is rarely a sudden event, but a slow process of each generation learning less and less of the language, until its use is relegated to the domain of traditional use, such as in poetry and song. Typically the transmission of the language from adults to children becomes more and more restricted, to the final setting that adults speaking the language will raise children who never acquire fluency.

Sanskrit fits in this category.whatever similarity Sanskrit has with Malayalam,its not considered as Sanskrit but a different language derived from Sanskrit.there is no reason to get so emotional,as its just a category.a Dead Language servives in Poetry,Literature as well as in various Religious Rituals.but it never become Primary Language for communication.do understand the difference.

 

[Sahasranama]

you don't understand what i've said.as nobody uses Sanskrit in everyday's life for speaking,it is considered as "Dead Language".but languages derived from that language may be used,but that doesn't make that "Dead Language's" status change..

read this.......

A language is often declared to be dead even before the last native speaker of the language has died. If there are only a few elderly speakers of a language remaining, and they no longer use that language for communication, then the language is effectively dead. A language that has reached such a reduced stage of use is generally considered moribund. Once a language is no longer a native language - that is, if no children are being socialised into it as their primary language - the process of transmission is ended and the language itself will not survive past the current generation. This is rarely a sudden event, but a slow process of each generation learning less and less of the language, until its use is relegated to the domain of traditional use, such as in poetry and song. Typically the transmission of the language from adults to children becomes more and more restricted, to the final setting that adults speaking the language will raise children who never acquire fluency.

Sanskrit fits in this category.whatever similarity Sanskrit has with Malayalam,its not considered as Sanskrit but a different language derived from Sanskrit.there is no reason to get so emotional,as its just a category.a Dead Language servives in Poetry,Literature as well as in various Religious Rituals.but it never become Primary Language for communication.do understand the difference.

Even by the definition mentioned above, Sanskrit NOT a dead language.

There are plenty of villages in India where Sanskrit is spoken today. From children to adults and it is passed on to successive generations.

1. Mattur in Karnataka
2. Hosahalli in Karnataka
3. Jhiri in Madhya Pradesh
4. Mohad in Madhya Pradesh
5. Baghuwar in Madhya Pradesh
6. Ganoda, in Rajasthan
7. Bawali, in Uttar Pradesh
8. Mithilanchal in Bihar

For eg, in Mattur even the vegetable vendor speaks in Sanskrit. Villagers use Sanskrit here for their day to day conversation as it is the language of the commoner there.

Even the Muslim families in Mattur speak Sanskrit without hesitation and as comfortably as is spoken by the Hindus.

 

[Luca1]

Thats not a correct assumption. On ground and among common people Hindi is the single largest language and everyone understands it to some degree or other.
Owing to our education system, a lot of people are able to communicate in English and hence BPO being a big business in India and beyond that Hindi is perhaps the only language that any Indian is comfortable with even if it isn't his/her mother tongue.

The Tamils I know would disagree. Most of them do not know Hindi and fiercely insistent on using English. In Indian politics and business, isn't English copy rather than the Hindi one the official copy.

 

[INDIC]

Hindi is not the language that tie India together. It's the English language. When 2 Indians has 2 different mother tongue, then they would communicate in English. That is why tech support is big inIndia.

Its the Chinese script that unites China, there is no language that unites Chinese. BTW most of the Indians can't speak English.

 

[INDIC]

And if our side wants to have better communication on the border, what language should they learn? English?

I believe we can three languages with same effort put on learning a single Mandarin language.

 

[Sahasranama]

Cloth merchant uses Sanskrit as business lingo - The Times of India

BIJAPUR: These days, a revival in ancient languages is palpable, and Sanskrit is no longer a forgotten tongue. There is also talk of establishing a Sanskrit and Vedic university in the state. But off campus, right in the city, is a trader who uses the language for his day-to-day business.

3R Garments Shop, at Meenakshi Chowk in Bijapur city is owned by Ram Singh Rajput. He has eight employees, and for the past eight years, they have been using the language for business.

Ram Singh says there is no difficulty in using the language. "After we started using Sanskrit, our customers increased. Most of the customers first want to talk and learn some Sanskrit, then they buy clothes." Inadvertently, it has worked as an advertising gimmick.

Ram Singh is an active member of the Sanskrit Bharati organization. He had learnt Sanskrit at a 10-day camp, and then started using it at home. After that, he introduced it for the first time in his business. He has now done his MA in Sanskrit.

His inspiration is North Karnataka's most powerful seer, Siddeshwar swamiji. On many occasions, the seer has introduced Ram Singh to his followers as the "Sanskrit man and his family", which inspired Singh to learn more.

His younger brothers, Mohan Singh and Vitthal Singh, also work in the shop. All of them speak Sanskrit fluently, though their mother tongue is Hindi.

According to the brothers, Sanskrit is the language of God, and learning it purifies a person's life by reducing bad habits and arrogant behaviour. "We automatically become polite, and good thoughts come to our mind," they say.

Says Mohan Singh: "Our customers believe more in us because of our language. They don't bother to question the price, but pay what we quote because they feel we do not deceive anybody. We too keep their faith."

Following this attraction at Ram Singh's shop, now barbers, kirana shop owners, beauty parlours, cloth merchants and several traders have begun to use Sanskrit as their business language.

 

[abjktu]

The Tamils I know would disagree. Most of them do not know Hindi and fiercely insistent on using English. In Indian politics and business, isn't English copy rather than the Hindi one the official copy.

Depends..Tamils living or working in North India speaks good hindi...

 

[abjktu]

you don't understand what i've said.as nobody uses Sanskrit in everyday's life for speaking,it is considered as "Dead Language".but languages derived from that language may be used,but that doesn't make that "Dead Language's" status change..

read this.......

A language is often declared to be dead even before the last native speaker of the language has died. If there are only a few elderly speakers of a language remaining, and they no longer use that language for communication, then the language is effectively dead. A language that has reached such a reduced stage of use is generally considered moribund. Once a language is no longer a native language - that is, if no children are being socialised into it as their primary language - the process of transmission is ended and the language itself will not survive past the current generation. This is rarely a sudden event, but a slow process of each generation learning less and less of the language, until its use is relegated to the domain of traditional use, such as in poetry and song. Typically the transmission of the language from adults to children becomes more and more restricted, to the final setting that adults speaking the language will raise children who never acquire fluency.

Sanskrit fits in this category.whatever similarity Sanskrit has with Malayalam,its not considered as Sanskrit but a different language derived from Sanskrit.there is no reason to get so emotional,as its just a category.a Dead Language servives in Poetry,Literature as well as in various Religious Rituals.but it never become Primary Language for communication.do understand the difference.

First of all..High literature Malayalam has around 80% Sanskrit borrowed words,but not in the regular spoken dialects..Spoken Malayalam is more closer to Tamil/dravidan roots than Sanskrit...About 40-60% regular words using in spoken dialects are either from Tamil or from old dravidan roots...

 

[Luca1]

The Tamils I know would disagree. Most of them do not know Hindi and fiercely insistent on using English. In Indian politics and business, isn't English copy rather than the Hindi one the official copy.

Can an Indian answer whether if the English version of Indianconstitution the official copy?

 

[jugad]

Can an Indian answer whether if the English version of Indianconstitution the official copy?

I believe there's an official copy of the Constitution in each of officially recognised languages by GOI