Knowing Multiple Languages!

[shopping_fan]

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@Lilly

nothing comes before my culture and my language Saraiki. I absolutely love my mother tongue.

[LP]

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@Ali_Syed

^ lol, In Pakistan if a person makes a bit of effort one can understand all languages covering Punjab, Sindh, Azad Kashmir, and Hazara/Kohistan areas of KP. The only languages different are Shina, Pashto, Balochi and Brahui.

Is that so ?

[Ali_Syed]

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@Little Princess

Is that so ?

They are all indo aryan languages. Pashto and balochi are different, they are near Persian I believe.

[LP]

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@Ali_Syed

They are all indo aryan languages. Pashto and balochi are different, they are near Persian I believe.

I find it difficult to comprehend punjabi …let alone other languages :hinna:

[Ali_Syed]

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Being a punjabi I can comprehend seraiki, potohari, pahaRi etc. Sindhi is a bit different but I know if I try hard I can understand 30-40 % (although I have never learnt the language nor heard anyone speak it). Muqawwee being a Sindhi would be able to understand all of these languages I guess.

[Doppleganger]

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I can make some heads and tails of Pakistani Punjabi sometimes, but then that could be chowdhri shujaat speaking Urdu so I can't really say. Suffice to say that I can't really speak Punjabi, though it shouldn't be hard when my dad could pick it up as well. Seraiki / potohari is close to Punjabi so of course you would understand it. It is like I can make some sense of what they say in hindi (the very pure one that they promote on indian tv) but I couldn't get the meaning of some words their either until they explained jiyoti in a cricket panel about the recent indopak cricket series.

[muqawwee123]

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Being a punjabi I can comprehend seraiki, potohari, pahaRi etc. Sindhi is a bit different but I know if I try hard I can understand 30-40 % (although I have never learnt the language nor heard anyone speak it). Muqawwee being a Sindhi would be able to understand all of these languages I guess.

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 .

[Microbian]

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@muqawwee123

either qeema or keema. My ammi is ready to serve lunch dinner

Qeema to ni nikalta:no: keema kehti hun me to

[LP]

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I say qeema
Qameez etc

[muqawwee123]

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@Little Princess

I say qeema
Qameez etc

Arabic influence. Qalqala

[LP]

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@muqawwee123

Arabic influence. Qalqala

I think isi wajah se…
Wht abt the H…the one from deep throat…is tht used in urdu ?
As in aHmad , Hamid wala H
not halwa wala ha

[muqawwee123]

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@Little Princess

I think isi wajah se…
Wht abt the H…the one from deep throat…is tht used in urdu ?
As in aHmad , Hamid wala H
not halwa wala ha

H se Halwa halaq se awaz aani chahiye

[LP]

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haan tht video went viral some yrs bk

[Lilly]

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@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.

@shopping_fan

@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!

[MacchiAmritsari]

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So jealous of you guys who know Seraiki, Hindko, Potwari. I’m trying to learn and make resources to help others learn these languages, but I can’t find a single person to learn from. Talk about frustrating

[KKF]

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i know English, Urdu, Hindi, Farsi, Bhojpuri and working knowledge of Arabic and several other Indian regional languages.

[Ali_Syed]

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i know English, Urdu, Hindi, Farsi, Bhojpuri and working knowledge of Arabic and several other Indian regional languages.

which language is Bhojpuri?

[KKF]

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which language is Bhojpuri?

similar to eastern UP and Bihari. most Bollywood movies [especially Amitabh (like in Adalat and BaGhban)] uses this language. Amitabh is from Allahabad and so am i...we speak the same language [or dialect].

jaise kahnaa ho k ... kia Haal chaal haiN? kahaN jaa rahe haiN? kab vaapas aayeNge?

ham log kahte haiN:

kaa Haal chaal havai? kahaN jaat haa? kab vaapis aiheN? :)

[the_kaur]

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apart from Braj, Awadhi and Braj are equally sweet, though Braj tops my list :)

[Ali_Syed]

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apart from Braj, Awadhi and Braj are equally sweet, though Braj tops my list :)

which language is Braj and Awadhi?