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October 3, 2013, 4:15pm
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Re: Speaking hindi…good or bad?
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I do not think Hindi is a language to begin with.**
It is Urdu with a different handwriting which was adopted as recently as in 1950 and it became an official language of India.
Some people add Sanskrit related words deliberately in it, to make it look like a different language.
I get a kick out of people calling Indian movies as “Hindi” movies when each and every word including songs is from Urdu.
Ka, Kijiye, Aap, Tum, Hamen, Muaaf Kijiye Ga, Nawazish, Karam, etc. etc. are not Hindi nor Sanskrit.
But many Indians are so ‘intellectually depleted’ that they cannot accept these as Urdu words. They even changed the word Urdu to Hindi when writing the so called history of “Hindi”.
Please remember: Urdu means “Lashkar” " Battalion" and it means it has and CAN accept words from many languages.
With this background:
**The answer is that those “some” families are not really wrong.
Regarding English: I agree. Same goes with English Language. If there is alternative word in Urdu for English language then parents should encourage their children for it if they want their children to speak Urdu better.
NOW;
Regarding the cultural practice. That needs more details what you are talking about.
Paaoon Laage (Leaning to touch the feet of mother or elder) and Namaste (Holding hands together with flat palm) kind of gesture for example is a big no no for Pakistanis and should be.
When even Indians from North and those who are Christians, Muslims or Buddhas do not approve many of Indian majority Hindu gestures then why be so critical of Pakistani families? Hain Ji?
Christians in India do abhor Hindu gestures as well.
I just read this :
The dialect upon which Standard Hindi is based is khadiboli, the vernacular of Delhi and the surrounding western Uttar Pradesh and southern Uttarakhand region. This dialect acquired linguistic prestige in the Mughal Empire (17th century) and became known as Urdu, “the language of the court.” In the late 19th century, the Hindutva movement started to standardize Hindi as a separate language from Urdu. In 1881 Bihar accepted Hindi as its sole official language replacing Urdu and thus became the first state of India to adopt Hindi.