Re: Why Punjabis Do Not Speak Punjabi With Their Kids
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The topic was something else but has been drifted to the same old discussion.
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Urdu's relation to Punjabi and the fact that it is a descendent of Punjabi is very relevant to the discussion..
One of the main reasons Punjabis have been more open to Urdu than say Pashtuns is because Punjabi, Urdu, Braj, Hindi etc. are what linguistic scholars call dialect continuum of the same language... Other examples from around the world include Liverpudlian and Mancunian: Liverpool is on our doorstep and there's more differences in their accent/dialect to our Mancunian than in between Punjabi and Urdu yet they are both classed as English, or take Irish and Scottish-Gaelic, or Tajiki, Dari and Farsi, or Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada (Telugu is also related but it's mutually unintelligble because it's artificially Aryanised).
I know all this is a bit of a blow to "Urdu-speaking" people who are under the illusion that just because one of their foremothers might have been a *kaneez *in a Mughal court they might be Central Asian descent and therefore their language is descended from some foreign language, sorry to burst your bubble guys. Foreign words don't change the classification of your language, Punjabi, Turkish or any other Muslim language can just as easily insert Arabic words in their vocabulory but that doesn't make them Semitic languages.