The sad history of International Mother Tongue Day

[Ahmad]

Although Urdo was a good choice for west pakistan, but leaders of those days made a mistake by ignoring Bengali initially and leaving the frustration to go to a point of no return. There are many countreis having more than one official language, pakistan could be anotehr of those examples. unless there is satisfaction for all people and groups in a country, prosperity and unity doesnt come by itself.

 

[Spring Onion]

Hindustani language ? lolzz whats that in the first place?

 

[Spring Onion]

Although Urdo was a good choice for west pakistan, but leaders of those days made a mistake by ignoring Bengali initially and leaving the frustration to go to a point of no return. There are many countreis having more than one official language, pakistan could be anotehr of those examples. unless there is satisfaction for all people and groups in a country, prosperity and unity doesnt come by itself.

Mujbeeb the traitor started the the policy of divide since inception of Pakistan on the basis of language anyway thats another story.

 

[LaBong]

@Jana: Urdu and Hindi are recent terms. The language was known as Hindustani language(as you might already have known that during pre-partition era mainly Northern India was known as Hindustan) or Khadiboli.

For further reading : Hindustani language -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

 

[Spring Onion]

@Jana: Urdu and Hindi are recent terms. The language was known as Hindustani language(as you might already have known that during pre-partition era mainly Northern India was known as Hindustan) or Khadiboli.

For further reading : Hindustani language -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

I know about the term Hindustani. But literally Urdu or Persian were never Hindustani language

 

[Capt.Popeye]

@Jana: Urdu and Hindi are recent terms. The language was known as Hindustani language(as you might already have known that during pre-partition era mainly Northern India was known as Hindustan) or Khadiboli.

For further reading : Hindustani language -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Yes Abir, you are right. Hindustani (which got changed to Hindi) was again an amalgam of Khariboli, Brajbhasha and even dollops of dialects like Maithili. Hindi in its present form is more of a post-independence phenomenon when there was an injection of pure Sanskrit words in to the language. And at the same time even the nomenclature changed from Hindustani to Hindi, a practice which was tacitly encouraged by the early Indian Governments to make it more religion-neutral sounding (in consonance with Secularistic ideals).

Interestingly, Subhas Bose saw Hindustani with a Roman script as an unifying 'lingua franca' of an independent India. He favored the Roman script since it helped overcome the problems of having to learn the Devnagari script in order to use Hindustani effectively.

 

[Roybot]

I know about the term Hindustani. But literally Urdu or Persian were never Hindustani language

Try saying that to a Lakhnavi, itni urdu ke history sunayenge ke dobara aisa kuch nahin bolenge aap

 

[LaBong]

I know about the term Hindustani. But literally Urdu or Persian were never Hindustani language

Look Jana, Urdu isn't Persian. An acid test of it is, try speaking Urdu to a Persian and see if he can understand a thing; then try speaking Urdu anywhere in North India and you'll just feel home.

Regards

 

[Ahmad]

Look Jana, Urdu isn't Persian. An acid test of it is, try speaking Urdu to an Persian and see if he can understand a thing; then try speaking Urdu anywhere in North India and you'll just feel home.

Regards

i am sure she didnt say persian and urdo are the same languages.

 

[LaBong]

Yes Abir, you are right. Hindustani (which got changed to Hindi) was again an amalgam of Khariboli, Brajbhasha and even dollops of dialects like Maithili. Hindi in its present form is more of a post-independence phenomenon when there was an injection of pure Sanskrit words in to the language. And at the same time even the nomenclature changed from Hindustani to Hindi, a practice which was tacitly encouraged by the early Indian Governments to make it more religion-neutral sounding (in consonance with Secularistic ideals).

Interestingly, Subhas Bose saw Hindustani with a Roman script as an unifying 'lingua franca' of an independent India. He favored the Roman script since it helped overcome the problems of having to learn the Devnagari script in order to use Hindustani effectively.

Capt, if I'm not wrong, Indian Army use the same system, Hindi/Urdu in Roman scripts.

 

[LaBong]

i am sure she didnt say persian and urdo are the same languages.

She said, Urdu or Persian were never Hindustani language, which is factually wrong, Urdu was born in North India.

 

[LaBong]

I may have misunderstood, I thought by using or, she meant Urdu and Persian are same language.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Capt, if I'm not wrong, Indian Army use the same system, Hindi/Urdu in Roman scripts.

Again you are right. The use of the Roman script is a very powerful tool to learning many languages without having to learn a script. i could learn Bahasa Indonesia solely because it is written in Roman script. Same for Tagalog.

Never mind what anybody says; Urdu was born in India/Hindustan. For the common folk, then who did'nt know Farsi; which was the language of the court in some dynasties. Later even the ruling classes appropriated Urdu.

 

[Tameem]

under united pakistan both pakistan and bangladesh would be much better of and even could be a super power

My Dear Bengali Brother….Again You people just want to dig…dig…dig…dig and dig the more you dig deeper the more you found yourself in a hole.

Dear weather its ‘48 agitation on Dhaka streets on coinage in Bengali or ‘52 students march, All is pure politics using raw nerves of the masses to one's own vested interests…nothing else….Believe me. Its just like in ‘60s when socialists ideas on the hype, some used religion to counter it effectively or in late 70s again its used against soviets successfully, look what Al-Qaeda doing with us now a days.... Yes…I admit there are grievances in the minds of people but there is no right for any individual or a group to capitalize on it for pure vested intrests and hijacked these issues to one’s own agenda..AL Govt from 71 to 75 is a pure example what “Banglabandhu” did finally to Bengali Nation on the pretext of Language and creed; I don’t want to go into the details but he just short to declare himself a “KING”.

Now you tell me what its look like to feel being betrayed from your own father???

 

[ghazi52]

A total 6912 languages are spoken in the world while 516 have been declared dead languages. However, 36 per cent of the languages are endangered to die soon due to globalization, the research added. - Reuters Photo


ISLAMABAD: Around 27 languages spoken in Northern Areas, Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and surrounding border areas of Pakistan are facing extinction, said a Unesco report.

The report, in connection with International Mother Day observed on Monday (Feb 21), revealed that language is the source of communication, education and progress and their extinction discontinue the transfer of social values to the coming generation and eventually the language are declared as dead languages.

In Pakistan, Punjabi has the highest number of speakers which are 48 per cent of the total population. However, Sindhi language is spoken by 12 per cent, Pashto and Urdu 8 per cent, Balochi 3 per cent, Hindko 2 per cent and Barohi 1 per cent.

The most common languages spoken across the world include: Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, Bangali, Punjabi and Urdu.

According to a research, Punjabi is ranked 11th and Urdu at 19th position among the most popular languages in the world.

To save languages, as they are the identity of a nation, Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) is giving equal importance to all languages of Pakistan and a comprehensive program has been formulated in this regard.

Chairman PAL, Fakhar Zaman said all the languages spoken in Pakistan are the national languages of Pakistan and Urdu besides being a national language is the official and Lingua of Franca of the country.

“All the languages of the country are Pakistani languages and we should strive to make the mother languages as part of curriculum on the primary level,” he said.

The book consisting of the selection of prose and poetry written in every language from 1947 to 2008 are being published separately by the PAL.

These languages include Urdu, English, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto, Balochi, Brahvi,Seraiki, Hindko, Sheena, Balti, Khawar and Kashmiri.

He said that PAL will organize seminars and conference on National Languages in all province and Islamabad. PAL to give due promotion and status to all the languages and that the mother tongues will be given due importance and financial assistance of the institutions working in this regard will be increased.

He also proposed to the government that Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto and Balochi Universities like Federal Urdu University should be established so that the message of unity, brotherhood and solidarity should be spread through the federation.

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