2007-03-25 01:49:04 · 10 answers · asked by pranay 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
The number of mother tongues in India is as high as 1,652, of which 24 languages are spoken by a million or more people. Three millennia of language contact situation have led to a lot of mutual influence among the four language families in India and South Asia. Two contact languages have played an important role in the history of India: Persian and English. Two classical languages native to the land are Sanskrit and Tamil.
If you consider status of Hindi when compared to as many as 1,652 mother tongues of India, you would realize that Hindi had never been given a secondary treatment. But off course a person would prefer to teach his kids the mother tongue before the national language.
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2007-03-25 08:40:31 · answer #1 · answered by plato's ghost 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know how you came to that conclusion, but Hindi is accepted as the national language of India. All Central Government offices and undertakings issue correspondences bilingually in English and Hindi. For examinations conducted by UPSC, there is the option to answer either in Hindi or English. So there is no official apathy or negligence regarding Hindi.
As a language, Hindi has its limitations especially in the fields of modern science and technology and international trade and commerce. It is far more advantageous to use English for these purposes and doesn't imply any insult to Hindi per se. After all a language is a means of communication and as long as it serves that purpose, cribbing about useless sideshows displays a narrow mind and parochialism.
The speakers of other languages take equal pride in their mother tongue as does a Hindi speaker in Hindi. To suppress these languages, some of which are intrinsically superior to Hindi would be an irreversible blunder. The aim of making Hindi the national language is never to establish its superiority over other languages. The objective is to make it a common working language across India. Let all languages survive and flourish in this great country.
2007-03-25 06:19:00 · answer #2 · answered by Modest 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Central government offices transact inter office communications both in Hindi and English. When public contact is necessary , in 3 languages, including the language of the state. For a common man nearly 80% of the population who do not know English or Hindi, completing any application compells a need of a middleman breeding corruption.
The status of Hindi is already known to all elite population. It is also understood in non Hindi speaking metros and large cities.
Your question implies a sort of linguistic superiority. All languages are equal before the constitution and question of primary or secondary does not arise at all. Any attempt to divide the nation as Hindi speaking or non Hindi speaking or southern states will not help all around national development and invite unwanted consequences.
This sort of split opinions are out dated and no person of reasonable thinking will do anything to treat Hindi in a planned way as a secondary one. Your fears are baseless.
2007-03-25 02:33:07 · answer #3 · answered by marsh man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hindi is treated as the National language of India. How can you say it is treated as secondary? Do you compare it with English? For convenient sake only English is the working language of India since there are more than 20 languages in India and we need a commoner. Since southern states are to transact with Central Govt., and Hindi has not been taught from the beginning, and treated as an optional language in studies, naturally English has to continue.
2007-03-25 01:59:13 · answer #4 · answered by nagarajan s 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all, every state should accept HIndi as our national language, which is not happening what with southern states being against it. Hence Hindi will remain the spoken language of India and will never become official language.
2007-03-25 02:04:15 · answer #5 · answered by P'quaint! 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hindi is our national language and is understood in most parts of India, thanks to Hindi movies. Every other regional language is equally important, while English is understood world over, so it has its own importance. By the way in todays globalised world why we should worry about trivial things and not consider using our knowledge of English for betterment of our prospects in the world economy as shown by the IT industry.
2007-03-25 02:23:07 · answer #6 · answered by Rahul 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Hindi is always respected as a national language. It is respected everyehere. Yes, hindi can never replace our mother languages i.e. regional languages. so those languages should be respected to preserve the distinct feature of our India i.e. Unity in Diversity.
2007-03-25 02:17:05 · answer #7 · answered by kultar s 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know why everyone want try to slowly convert to english anyway. Supposedly english is the best langauge at least that's what I've been taught maybe its just patriotism or something. But I don't see why defending a language is so important if it's inferrior to others.
2007-03-25 02:57:05 · answer #8 · answered by Beaverscanttalk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the first preference is given to the mother tongue language..
2007-03-26 08:01:03 · answer #9 · answered by vina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try filling forms in hindi.
no matter how educated you are i bet you will end up paying the guy out side the karyalaye filling up forms
thank god it is secondary what would have happened if it was primary + you would not had posted this questen if it was primary
2007-03-25 02:24:24 · answer #10 · answered by 8th wonder 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋