Knowing Multiple Languages!

[Lilly]

Re: Knowing Multiple Languages!

@Ali_Syed

If you speak Urdu in bigger cities like Lahore you look cool. The medium of instruction in schools and colleges is all Urdu, thats the language that you speak in offices etc. Punjabi is thought to be a backward language. It has two effects, the people speaking Urdu look down upon those speaking Punjabi and the same guy when he goes to a village the people over there give him more importance as a shehri baoo anyways this thinking will need to change at some stage otherwise Punjabi will face a lot of problems within Pakistan.

This happens to us people who live abroad, we speak mother tongue at home but when we go to Pak ,people don’t want us to speak our language, they like to listen our English. Dhobi ka kutta

@muqawwee123

and that so called educated class never supported Urdu too. They send their children in missionary schools and talking Urdu is a taboo in their circles. So Urdu is in itself in trouble here in Pakistan. One of our teacher used to say that a sign of dying language is that the language is only spoken by old people in its original form with muhawraat. Today, we don’t have many people who can speak Urdu without mixing sentences of English in it. Look at the TV dramas scripts in 80s and 90s and today’s production and you will know that Urdu is losing its vocabulary to English.

And people feel so much proud of speaking few words of English language while they speak Urdu. They don’t regret of what they are doing, they might regret some day when their kids will speak English living in Pakistan and they will study URDU at schools.

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@muqawwee123

I can understand Sindhi, Punjabi, Saraiki, Hindko due to the reason that our elders speak pure and theth Sindhi and we have Punjabi, Saraiki speaking family friends .

I know what you know All above languages!