...Because there is no such systematic approach to preserve and promote Punjabi (in fact this holds true for all major regional languages of Pakistan). Punjabi has stopped being the language of local Literature and Poetry, that itself is always the first major sign of endangerment of any particular language.
Everyone in Punjab speaks Punjabi in various ways, but somewhere along the line, it has become a class issue. It's a proud language of Rickshaw Walas and shopkeepers, but somehow the new generation of 'burger kids' don't want to own it.
Do burgers matter? They never owned any of the languages of land including Urdu.
Writer is covering all aspects including medium of instructions. As far as Karachiites noticing everyone speaking Punjabi in Lahore is concerned, that might be a misunderstanding as they might be speaking in Urdu with Punjabi tone and few words of Punjabi that sound to them as Punjabi. Otherwise, with all due respect, Karachiites language and language skills is restricted to Urdu and to an extent English.
Is it true that kids speaking punjabi are tagged as illetrate? I think this is also a misunderstanding for those who can't speak or understand punjabi and cannot feel the sweetness of the language and tone.Otherwise there is no reason to call someone ganwar or illeterate just because they are speaking in a language you don't understand.Similarly there is a misconception about pushto and I have seen people making fun of their language and acccent.
This topic is not new and has been discussed in different threads in different styles. While Ali will reconfirm, there are people who don’t speak in Punjabi with their children at home (as the writer is saying). I remember in a thread, about ‘kuggi’, someone commented that his dada used word ‘pakheroo’ for bird, but now everyone call it Parinda. I can feel the beauty of Pakheroo over Parinda :snooty:
Agreed about the open-mindedness. Although at times it feels like we're conditioned to feel paindu by default for wanting to converse in Punjabi - so not sure if everyone would be considered open-minded or simply pressured. I frankly don't understand where loyalty comes in the picture - you should master at least one of the three otherwise it's just embarrassing on all levels.
these things are there since partition when people detested one unit policy. tbh, the amount of hate punjabis have received on enforcing urdu on others, sometimes make me wish one unit policy had not been implemented.
lols. I mean for liguistic purposes. I would wait till PTIians could say aaho :D
You know what, you'd be surprised how many Punjabi burger kids can actually speak perfectly fine Punjabi on on/off basis or if pushed to the corner. I personally think they go through a phase like most kids: it's uncool to speak Punjabi when you are in school and in your teens years, but suddenly in your 20s, speaking Punjabi becomes a symbol of street smartness and the language of banter and jokes.
these things are there since partition when people detested one unit policy. tbh, the amount of hate punjabis have received on enforcing urdu on others, sometimes make me wish one unit policy had not been implemented.
One unit was definitely a blunder to confiscate people's identity and making people realise that did mistake for joining Pakistan. While I have not studied the subject in detail, but what little I read about one-unit, people were punished in Sindh for calling Sindh as Sindh. All of sudden a new terminology coined to refer Sindh as 'Wadi e Mehran'. This was definitely unbearable.
You know what, you'd be surprised how many Punjabi burger kids can actually speak perfectly fine Punjabi on on/off basis or if pushed to the corner. I personally think they go through a phase like most kids: it's uncool to speak Punjabi when you are in school and in your teens years, but suddenly in your 20s, speaking Punjabi becomes a symbol of street smartness and the language of banter and jokes.
This reminds me one of my Punjabi friend .. an Aitchison Alumni. His Punjabi was quite gulaabi
yeah, I wish everyone would have their own country. but interestingly, if partition didnt take place, everyone would have been happily living under hindu domination.
yeah, I wish everyone would have their own country. but interestingly, if partition didnt take place, everyone would have been happily living under hindu domination.
Thats a totally different topic and nothing can be said with certainty. What was certain and part of history, no part (province) extended alliance to Pakistan for losing its per-partition identity (with include culture, language, local history). Pakistan and its concept has been promoted as fragile for God knows what reasons. Countries in world have different races with multiple languages, but they didn't face dilemma like Pakistanis faced.
lol kuch aisa me ny bhe kisi thread me kaha tha but that does not mean our parents don’t speak in punjabi with us.My mother says that she is forgetting the typical punjabi words that she used to listen when she was a kid and with those people not around her anymore her punjabi is altered it’s now a mixture of punjabi and urdu.
Ab hum is ka kiya karen :snooty:
once my dadi asked me to give her chunni and I just stared at her and asked what is chunni and she said
Ae samny ki peya ay tenu nazar nahi ata :cb:
My ami always called it a dupatta and said she has forgotten when was the last time she heard or called a duppata chunni.Similarly a relative came from punjab and while cooking breakfast she asked for halwanda and again I asked what??? wo jis me anda fry krty hain she was asking for a frying pan :smack:
what’s the urdu of frying pan?
these things are there since partition when people detested one unit policy. tbh, the amount of hate punjabis have received on enforcing urdu on others, sometimes make me wish one unit policy had not been implemented.
Punjabis enforcing Urdu on others? News to me. Perhaps we need a One Unit Policy thread.
Paindoo
KaRhai?
