Are we losing "it"???

A great language is one which has the ability of making words from other languages useable in its-self. And Urdu is definitely among one of those dynamic languages which takes pride in its evolution to revolution.

The beauty of Urdu is in its all beautiful dialects From Dakkani to Hyderabadi to Ilah Abaadi to *Lakhnavi *to *Dehlvi *to many others…

All of them taking higher grounds in competition… The respectful nature of Lakhnavi urdu can not be matched while the Hyderabadi urdu is as fluent and funny as the literal urdu of Dehli (Dilli)… [Uncle Ghalib kaa des :-p]

There are words in urdu which differentiate it from the spoken Hindi (not the real hindi that is much more influenced by Sanskirat) - another great language of the subcontinent -

Unfortunately, we are making our language less important un-knowingly every day that comes ahead. We, being far away from the real urdu culture, makes a good excuse. By watching indian movies, our new generation has learnt enough hindi to put urdu in a cage.

Where urdu has so romantic and beautiful words in it, we see ourselves using words from Hindi. Wouldn’t it be better that if we are trying to write or speak in urdu, we try to learn the original urdu words instead of borrowing words from Hindi??

I am sure many of you must have heard the word Bait Baazi but how many of us use it instead of Antaakshiri?

That is just one example that made me think over this issue… There are so many other instances of the similar nature and I am sure many of you must be aware of them…

Should not we try???

Re: Are we losing "it"???

Is bazm e urdu main nacheez ne bhi urdu ke iss mukhtasar taarruff ke saath qadam rakh liya

*urdu hai mera naam main khusro ki paheli
main meer ki hamraaz huun ghalib ki saheli

dakkan ke wali ne mujhe godi main khilaya
sauda ke qaseedon ne mera husn baraya

hai zauq ki azmat ke mujhe chalna sikhaya
main daagh ke aangan main khili ban ke paheli*

Re: Are we losing "it"???

i love urdu more than any other language. i love it so much that i think if i ever gonna take it i think i gonna fail it. (dont ask me why)

and for the words bait- baazi well i think i heard it being used for some debate competition, whereas Antaakshiri i think is famous Zee TV program (i never saw the program).

kya

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so true :hmmm:

but kids nowadays cant even read urdu properly

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^^ well yea thats sad...........
i dont understand why ppl dont tke their own language seriously.....
i hve never been to pk..but i can still understnd write nd speak it....evenmy first novel gt publishd when i was abt 16 or so...
dnt let it die ppl

I love urdu and am trying to teach my children.I hope every single of us should try more often to speak urdu to our children.
Even my daughter Zafeerah is learning and urdu its hard for her to read but her writing is very good ALHAMDULILLAH.

If you don't mind sharing what novel is that?

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oh i hve written lots of short stories novels or afsane...for most of the khawateen digests...and for some other magazines