Hindi as a Language

While growing up, the language spoken in my home was Punjabi, and this was spoken by my whole family, including my parents and grandparents. My parents are from Jalandhar, India and my grandparents are originally from East Pakistan, therefore our dialect of Punjabi is Doabi, which is spoken slightly differently than other dialects. Dialects are variations in language, where speakers can still understand each other. On the other hand, two different languages would be unintelligible. Punjabi is a diverse language, which has various dialects, depending on the city in Punjab one has originated from. I was born in India and lived there for a while until my family moved to Vancouver, when I was two years old.

The ancestral language of India was Sanskrit. Over time, Sanskrit evolved into Hindi and other Indian languages. The Indo-European language family is the largest in the world. The Indo-European language family is believed to have its origins in Eastern Europe. Indo-European offspring include languages such as Latin and the various Romance languages and Celtic languages among many others.

After independence in 1947, India adopted Hindi as its national language and decided to make it an official language too. But in a multilingual country like India, establishing an official language was not an easy task. There were, however, several problems with selecting Hindi. After independence, the hatred feelings for British rule indulged with English languages, it reminds Indian mass of the colonial rulers. However, there was also a section of people who believed that the English language has contributed somehow in the freedom struggle of India and is having the capacity to do much good for independent India too. The difference in opinion of these two sections of Indians was one of the causes of language dispute. All these had created

Examples of failed multi-lingual socities are witnessed around the world. India, a country of more than ten official languages, is the worst example of chaotic society and bureaucracy nightmare, regardless English is still used extensively as an official language in India. Without a single recognized common language, the government

India, with its population of 986.6 million people, is the world's second largest country in terms of population. There are 18 official languages in India and over 900 dialects or closely related languages. Hindi is the most common language used and English, is the second most common. There is a remarkable mosaic of cultural and racial people found in India.

No doubt, the language in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is very vulgar. But that is what identifies Junior’s educated capacity and shows the way he grew up. It expresses his emotions and lets us see how he views life. Offensive vocabulary and profanity surrounds us and it’s something high school students can relate to. In Fuller’s “Some parents seek to ban The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Chicago Tribune, a local named Whitehurst says “Like it or not, that is the way 14-year-old boys talk to each other.” Fuller also adds the opinion of, Jennifer Anderson, a parent who thinks the book “is not appropriate for [her] community.” She doesn’t approve of it because she feels that if the book uses profanity and is

This first source, Japanese Literature, describes how classic literature grew and made it’s mark in history. At around 894 - 1194, there were many developments in writing. People began writing fiction such as The Tales of Genji By Murasaki Shikibu. It was considered, “ the pre-eminent masterpiece of Heian fiction and an early example of a work of fiction in the form of a novel.” by New World Encyclopedia. During this time period, it was considered a pastime to be writing anthologies of poetry. For the Japanese, poetry was a way of expressing emotion in a refined way.

The literature around the world has different types of authors and each one of them with his own writing style. The period where they live affects their style because the writers are exposed to different circumstances and factors. The arrival of the Islamic religion influenced the Indian poetry. This changed the way how they thought and expressed through poetry, and according to K. S. Ram “The two important factors in the world of Kabir [post Islamic poet] (XV century) were: one, the change of the Vedantic religion dry, abstract intellectualism; and two, the fights between Hindus and Muslims had become a sad fact of everyday life.”. This essay will be focused on a comparison and contrast about the Indian poetry before and after the Islam.

The English Romantic Age, which lasted from the late 18th century to the middle of the 19th century, was born of the ideas of William Wordsworth, British poet and author. Many critics of this era believe that Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s co-publication of a collection of poems called Lyrical Ballads initiated Romanticism, which featured themes of nature, individualism and emotion. Wordsworth’s works are representative of this era; they include ideas about personal experience and emotion, as well as the influence of nature on man. He also used and advocated simple language that any reader could comprehend. This radical form of literature influenced other poets to write in a similar manner, creating a movement that forever changed poetry.

When it comes to demographics, India is home to two noteworthy dialect families. These two languages are Indo-Aryan and Dravidian. The different dialects used in India originated from the Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan dialect families. The discussed country has no designated national language but utilize several more often than not (Dharwadker, 2010). The language with the most amount of speakers is Hindi which has become the nation’s government’s official language. English is utilized broadly in corporate and organizational settings and has been deemed as the alternate language of India. English is also critical in school as it is seen as a level of advancement in education. India’s religious population consists of several different

There are more than 3000 local languages are spoken in Indonesia so that this country is known for its lingua franca, but instead of that Indonesia has an official national language (called Bahasa Indonesia) to unite all Indonesian so that they can understand each other.

Indian Poetry after Islam: The Indian Poetry came off very different compared to the poetry that I am used to. There was a guy named Kabir who was born in a place called Uttar Pradesh in India. The exact year and circumstances of his birth still remain unknown. There are sources that say Kabir was born before the beginning of the fifteenth century. The year of his death was also said to be between 1448 and 1518. There are legends surrounding his birth and life that describe him as a son who was abandoned of a widowed Brahmin woman who was the son of a miraculous virgin birth to a young Muslim girl. He was raised by Muslim foster parents in a poor family household. Although he neglected traditional Hindu rituals and the strict Muslim practices, the influence of grassroots religious doctrine from each tradition was evident in his teachings. Calling himself “the son of Allah and Rama,” he incurred the wrath of religious leaders who had no interest in the blurring of political or theological boundaries between the two traditions.

Bahasa Indonesia is the national language but interestingly has faced similar challenges in many parts of the country to that with the adoption of Hindi as the national language in India. Indeed in Bali, Balinese is widely spoken.

India's struggle for Independence had acquired a new dimension with the Revolt of 1857 and at around the same time, in 1861, one of India's most celebrated poets Rabindranath Tagore was born in Bengal. The time in which Tagore is born and later begins his literary career becomes important in understanding the politics of his writing; the poets and writers who wrote before him and also how he begins to experiment with the forms, styles and images in modern Indian poetry. This paper seeks to explore the relationship between the time in which Tagore is writing, specifically with reference

due to trade relations, cultural exchanges, migrations and military expeditions. Urdu in India is basically developed in close contact with Persian, which was the language of administration and education during the period of Muslim rule. During this period Persian was the court language but there was no antipathy against local languages. In fact it is stated that the Muslim intellectuals like Amir Khusro and saints like Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia encouraged a language that could be understood by the common people. This is how Urdu was developed and in the latter days of the Mughal period it became the most commonly understood language, which was also used in the courts of the kings. Even after Urdu began to replace Persian as the language of poetry in the 18th century, Persian retained its official status for another century, and remained a rich source of literary vocabulary in Urdu language. Some elements of Persian grammar along with the vocabulary have been borrowed. Apart from Persian, Urdu also borrowed numerous vocabularies from Arabic language. In day-to-day Urdu speech and writings we observe many Arabic