Okay you'll find this odd that I am actually writing this blog in English for the support of Hindi. The reason why I am doing this is because I don't know how to write a text on the internet in Hindi, using the Hindi writing feature given to us. Plus I think the beauty of Hindi lies in its phonetics. Many of us might not have noticed it before but in Hindi there is a different spelling and sound for every word, unlike English where we have the problem of homophones or heteronyms. If we understand the basics of how each word is pronounced its not difficult to write Hindi, the task left is to keeping in mind why we have different मात्रा (Pronounce it as MAATRAA). Just try it once, speak out a sentence, write it down, then you'll understand the beauty of Hindi. Some people have the misconception that Hindi is spoken only in UP and Bihar, but the truth is even if you go to some rural area of Assam or Tripura, you'll never find any problem in having a conversation in Hindi.
Not digressing from the topic too much the reason why I am demanding Hindi to be an official language in UN is because almost 90 percent of the South Asians (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, etc. they are in South-East Asia not South Asia) speak in Hindi and 25% of UN members are South Asians. Hindi is the fifth most spoken language in the world (http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/distribution.asp?by=size, as taken on 20th April 2010) and the script from Hindi has been derived (देवनागरी लिपि), has also derived many other languages such as Marathi, Nepali and Gujrati. Languages like Punjabi, Haryanvi and Rajasthani are pretty close to Hindi, they just have different styles.
Not boring you too much in a nutshell I'll say that we need a common Language for South Asians in UN. Languages like German, French and Italian are spoken less than Hindi have become an official language in UN. A lot of funding is spent in foreign Universities for the research of these languages. We are not asking much, we simply demand that Hindi should be their in UN as well.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment