I am very pleased to inform you that Punjab Society has been working on amelioration of Punjabi language for the past few years in London . After consulting many many Punjabi scholars and intellectuals, the society has come up with a solution to write the language the way it is spoken. Presently thousands and thousands of Punjabi words are written different from the way they are spoken and by using this very simple method Punjabi can be written just the way it sounds now.
The Punjab Society has obtained some web space and is very shortly putting all the ideas and solutions on the internet. Any person interested in Punjabi writing would appreciate the work this non profit making literary society based in England has done and has achieved the goal no body else has ever done before. I am personally responsible for the above work and would like to hear from any body regarding this work I have been working on. I am not claiming that this is the final solution but, will be grateful if somebody recognises the need to reform this great language so it can be more versatile than it presently is. Very sadly eventhough this language is the main language of Pakistani public and is one of the oldest languages in Indian subcontinent, is not taught to Punjabi children in Schools nor is the official language of any part of Pakistan. We are working on it in England that this beautiful language is preserved in its present form and is taught to Pakistani children in schools all over England wherever possible. We are not funded by any body other than our Executive Committee members and are very proud of the work we are doing for our Punjabi brothers , nation and the country. Please look at our website and let us know if we can do even better than what we are already doing. Thank you very much for your time.
Any regional language cannot be considered as a national language.
I dont think it will be a national service to Pakistan by teaching the Pakistani students a regional language with so much emphasis. We already have too much problems in Pakistan based on language.
In my opinion, studying a regional language should be optional and not mandatory as it is also the case with Sindhi language which is mandatory for the students but what t has achieved so far, nothing.
JAK , so you mean that National language should be only the one which minimum number of people speak in all the regions. And on top of it, more people in enemy-country speak it than the one where it is national language... what a brilliant idea.... Literacy rate will just shoot up through the roof overnight!
The national language should be the one which maximum number of people can atleast understand, not necessarily can speak.
And from my personal experiance, Urdu is the language which most people can understand in Pakistan, although many are unable to speak it in interior parts of the country.
Yes...the national language should be force upon the citizens to a certain extent. We need uniformity of some kind at least. I being a punjabi myself, think that its ok to speak it at home and stuff, but to teach it in schools where our pushto brothers are learning pushto in their schools, and sindhi brothers are learning sindhi and balochis are learning balochi, how do u ever think we will be able to interact with each other? We need some common ground to work with, and a national language is a major factor. I dont mind teaching punjabi in schools etc as long as urdu is also taught.
Akif, no one said that Urdu should not be taught in schools. Both, the mother language and Urdu, like NYA said should be taught in all regions of the country. Some people make the argument that both Punjabi and Urdu are so similar that it is not needed to teach both. Its not true. Similar is not the same.
They may be similar in script and grammatical structure but the content and vacublary is different. Further, being proud of one's language and heritage is good for a child's self esteem and development otherwise they grow up calling themselves paindoos all their lives.
maan boli je bhull javo ge
kakhaN vangooN rull javo ge.
Salam,
i agree with Akif and NYAhmadi. Being punjabi, i think it should be taught more; especially in pakistan as well as in europe and north america.
i think urdu is already the national lang of pakistan, everyone understands it and it is also spoken in some parts of india.
i used to go to school in england and i never really learnt any punjabi their. it's weird, my parents talk to each other in punjabi, yet they speak to me and my bros. in urdu. i hope that punjabi will become more widespread and available to kids at school in england and slowly make its way over here to the states also.