Cindy, here comes first episod..
India has a civilization over 5000 Yrs Old. One of the oldest and the most perfect language on the earth is Sanskrit. It is perfect in the sense it has a mathematical and scientific structure of Grammer and a huge vocabulary and uses around 56 phonatic alphabets. Unfortunatly, this language is no more in use !!
Mainly because by the self proclaimed Upper Cast people, there was prohibition to use Sanskrit by" non their casts" for almost 2 milleniums.
Contemporary languges spoken and written in India are basically originated from this very, Sanskrit, the Language of the Gods.
In 1947, the country was divided in Pakistan and Secular Democratic India. There was a big and landmark restucturing of internal states which formerly were ruled by hundreds of Kings, Maharajas and so. The states were structured according to Languages spoken. From north to south here are the states and their main languages:
Jammu & Kashmir : Hindi,Kashmiri & Urdu
Himachal Pradesh: Hindi, Himacahli and Kangdi
Punjab:Punjabi & Hindi
Haryana : Haryanavi, Punjabi and Hindi.
Rajsthan : Hindi, Marwadi
Gujrath: Gujrathi ,Hindi
Mahrashtra: Marathi,( My MT) Hindi
Karntaka : Kannad
Goa: Konkani ( My mother in law tung!) and Portugees. As They stayed here till 1960.
Keral : Mallyalam
Tamilnadu: Tamil
AndhraPradesh : Telgu
MadhyaPradesh : Hindi and it's 50 versions!!
Uttar Pradesh: Hindi, Urdu and their crosses
Orisa/ Udisa: Oriya ,Bangla
West Bengal : Bengali
Assam : Assami and it's 5/6 variants.
Arunachal Pradesh , NagaLand, Kohima, Manipur; and other Eastern Sates : I do not know names but every state has it's own language.
Hindi is understood by most of the Indians.
There are a few ilands and union terrytories having French and other native languges used.
The scripts used by Marathi, Hindi and Sanskrit is known as Dev Nagari. All other languges have their own scripts which are not easy to understand.
There are some Languifanatic Political forces which resists to call Hindi as National Language.
Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil have a wealth of Literature Treasure.
Now a days, though, no body speaks any language in it's pur form. I speak "MarHinglish" !!
The regional, national part of what we speak looses to international languge as we move from smaller place to bigger one.
Ouuf.. 2 much for 2 day..
Bookmarks