flamy Posted May 4, 2009 Posted May 4, 2009 Thats your interpretation and thats entirely wrong. Just see Viru's previous post which proves the assumption exists.
yoda Posted May 4, 2009 Posted May 4, 2009 You need to know 3 languages (at a minimum) in India: 1. English (without this you are essentially a village idiot) 2. Regional language (without this you are a local idiot) 3. Hindi (if you need to travel to a hindi speaking part of the county). This ofc is optional, thankfully. Sorry to burst of the bubble of the chest-thumping "Hindi is the National language" crowd. It is not. It is however an official language, not because everyone has to officially know it, cause we have several village babu politicians who can't speak in coherent english even if their life depended on it. Here is some info on the languages for those interested: http://www.indiabook.com/india-information/official-language.html India has 18 Recognized Officially Spoken Languages. However, English continues to be an accepted means of communication. Assamese is the language of Assam and is spoken by nearly 60 percent of the State's population. Bengali, one of the leading Indo-Aryan languages, is the official language of West Bengal. It too developed as a language in the 13th Century and is now spoken by nearly 200 million people in West Bengal and in Bangladesh. Gujarati is the official language of the state of Gujarat and is spoken by 70 percent of the State's population. Gujarat started out as an independent language around AD 1200. It is now one of the most developed languages in India. Hindi is numerically the biggest of the Indo-Aryan family and is the official language of India. In six states and union Territories, Hindi is the official language. Kashmiri is a language of the Indo-Aryan group and is often mistaken as the state language of Jammu and Kashmir. Urdu is the state language of Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmiri speaking population of the state comes to around 55% of the total population. Kashmiri literature goes back to AD 1200. Kannada is the state language of Karnataka and is spoken by 65 percent of the state's population. It belongs to the Dravidian family, and dates back to the 9th Century as an independent language. Konkani, the official language of Goa, is principally based on classical Sanskrit and belongs to the southwestern branch of Indo-Aryans. It is spoken by thousands of Konkanis in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala also. Malayalam, a branch of the Dravidian family is the official language of the state of Kerala. Malayalam developed as an independent language, by the 10th Century AD. It is the youngest of all developed languages in the Dravidian family. Marathi, the Indic language, dates back to the 13th Century. It is the official language of Maharashtra. Though Marathi separated from the Indo-Aryan stock at a very early date , it has today a fully developed literature of the modern type. Oriya, a branch of the Indo-Aryan family, is the official language of the State of Orissa, where the Oriya speaking population comprises around 82% of the total population. Oriya is found recorded as far back as the 10th Century. However, its literary career began only in the 14th Century. Punjabi belongs to the Indo-Aryan family and is the official language of the State of Punjab. Punjabi, though very ancient, turned literary around the 15th Century. From the 19th Century, Punjabi showed vigorous development in all branches of literature. It is written in Gurmukhi script, created by the Sikh Guru, Angad. Sindhi is spoken by a great number of people. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan family and preserved some of the archaic characteristics of the Indo-Aryan script. Tamil is the oldest of the Dravidian languages and is the State language of Tamil Nadu. Tamil literature goes back to Centuries before the Christian era. It represents certain new literary types that are not in Sanskrit or other Aryan languages. It spoken by more than 73 million people. Telugu is a Dravidian language spoken by the people of Andhra Pradesh. It is numerically the biggest linguistic unit in India. Telugu is found to be recorded in the 7th Century AD. However, it is only in the 11th Century that it broke out into a literary language. Urdu is the State language of Jammu and Kashmir and is spoken by more than 28 million people In India. Urdu and Hindi have proceeded from the same source i.e., Khariboli. Urdu is written in the Persio-Arabic script and contains many words from the Persian language.
mainhoonna Posted May 5, 2009 Posted May 5, 2009 Difference is , I will never use it over and over to inject insult and if someone like you doesn't like it, I have no qualms in not saying it again We are already divided by region, caste, language, gods, culture-multiculture..and humour is derived from many things, so to put in short,..no worrues, u wont hear this from me again :flowers:(am an istree so can give flowers).
zubinpepsi Posted May 5, 2009 Posted May 5, 2009 Thats your interpretation and thats entirely wrong. I agree with that. Thats what they teach in schools. They wont teach it if its wrong. even if ur not sure, u say it with full confidence.. i appreciate tht.. but sorry Hindi is not the National Language.. Its one of the official languages... u mite not agree with me.. but thts the fact....
DomainK Posted May 5, 2009 Author Posted May 5, 2009 even if ur not sure, u say it with full confidence.. i appreciate tht.. but sorry Hindi is not the National Language.. Its one of the official languages... u mite not agree with me.. but thts the fact.... Prove it then.
yoda Posted May 5, 2009 Posted May 5, 2009 Prove it then. Don't know if this proves it, but the author seems to have been in an illusionary boat as you and has realized what the rest of us knew all along: http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=126953
DomainK Posted May 5, 2009 Author Posted May 5, 2009 Don't know if this proves it, but the author seems to have been in an illusionary boat as you and has realized what the rest of us knew all along: http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=126953 Will read that tomorrow and will do my bit of research also.
punjabi_khota Posted May 5, 2009 Posted May 5, 2009 even if ur not sure, u say it with full confidence.. i appreciate tht.. but sorry Hindi is not the National Language.. Its one of the official languages... u mite not agree with me.. but thts the fact.... It is THE official language of union of India, along with English (and those are the only 2). Also, it is one of the 18 national languages.
DomainK Posted May 5, 2009 Author Posted May 5, 2009 Its taught in schools all over India. They cant do it if its false. If there is proof that this is a bluff, why hasn't anyone ever filed a PIL against such teaching?
yoda Posted May 5, 2009 Posted May 5, 2009 Its taught in schools all over India. They cant do it if its false. If there is proof that this is a bluff' date=' why hasn't anyone ever filed a PIL against such teaching?[/quote'] So is French. What is your point?
flamy Posted May 5, 2009 Posted May 5, 2009 Let us assume that Hindi is the national language. Do you expect everyone to know it?
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