Changing Pakistan's national language?

[homer_j_simpson]

Re: Changing Pakistan’s national language?

@Daniyal

Punjabi should be the national language of Pakistan. Punjab is the largest state and over 65% of the population lives there. Punjabi language and culture is very rich and goes back centuries. People in Pakistan shun Punjabi over Urdu as status, how false and superficial is that! Urdu is the language of Indian Muslims. I am not against Urdu by why choose that over your own mother tongue!

Punjabi’s have this inferiority complex when in Urdu company; a good example of this is, if a 10 Punjabi’s are in the company of 1 Urdu speaker, all 10 Punjabis will go out of their way and try to converse in Urdu, but the 1 Urdu speaker will never try to converse in any other language but his own.

We don’t have anything to do with Arabic or Persian, again these would be imposed languages.

The sad thing is that local cultures and languages will start to disappear.

Another example of loss to our Punjabi children, I was at a family gathering, we older guyes were all in room with a few children listening on as to what we were talking about, we were tell jokes and stories etc and generally having a laugh, but the children were just looking at each other, because they could not understand tha jokes and join in. This is where Urdu is changing us. By almeans teach Urdu but teach Punjabi first. I myself never learnt Urdu officially, but I speak Urdu fluently. A person that can speak Punjabi can easily speak Urdu, but not the otherway around!

whats next on ur agenda?