what should be india's national language?

[uttoransen]

what should be india's national language?

it should be english, no indian language should be given preference.

hindi, as over 15% of indian people want hindi as national language, and that is majority,as it's arround 9% for bengali, the same is for tamil and all.

or there should be no national language.


will you prefer national language as, marathi, gujrati, orrisaa, bengla, tamil,
i mean your own mother tungue you will prefer.


let's see what you think about it.

[~Phenom~]

Hindi is and should remain our national language.

[QwertyManiac]

Yep Hindi it is and will ever be, English is the trade language and no country EVER forgets its national language no matter how much you force other languages down thier throats...

I prefer English as that'll get me somewhere but Hindi as a language is your culture and you must preserve it.

[Apollo]

Hindi is our national language. I suggest we all stick and learn to live with it.

After that, comes Mai Marathi. In my book.

Jai Hind! Jai Maharashtra!

[led_shankar]

I beg to differ. Hindi is not the national language, just because a majority of people speak it. There are many many many languages in India; We cannot ignore any of them. There have been major riots due to this issue. People take pride in their regional languages, and we cannot afford to alienate them by imposing our language upon them.

[Apollo]

No one's imposing Hindi on anyone. No one can and should ignore their respective mother tongues/regional languages. We should all take pride in it!

I'm a Maharashtrian, Mr. X is from some other ethnic background. We'll be like primates if we didn't have a Common Speech to communicate linguistically. It's just that Hindi happens to have been around since god-knows-how-long, and the closest to being an efficient and successful mode of Common Speech devised by ourselves and not imposed by a foreign agent.

[uttoransen]

english is leading, 3:2 good.

[praka123]

English for the sake of ppl who dont know/dont want to learn Hindi apart from north there r ppl like in TamilNaad who dont even get one word in Hindusthaani properly.SO ENGLISH.

[nikku12982]

Actually u don't want to learn hindi..It our national language and we should proud of it....

[praka123]

hame to hindi aata hai...lekin India mein baaki jo log jo dakkin mein hei usko tho badi mushkil hoga hindi padna...its upto the ppl whether u want 2 learn or not.also come 2 down south tamilnaad and check ur hindi---Is someone get yor/our Raashtr Bhaasha eh?... try to think BIG rather than confined 2 Northisthan only.there are ppl in south also whom u ppl purposely forgot.also Tamil is a very diffrnt LANG with lesser sanskrit content compared to all other languages and they are proud of it.only few kannadigas/Konkanasthas here in south will be interested in Hindi,so no pain better understand than arguing yor part

[freakanomics]

English shud be the national language....

[jithudigitised]

ya there are lots of people thinking hindi is only for norths.
actually language is used for communication.so for two people to communicate whatever language they commonly know and comfortable with, use that, that may be hindi, english or even malayalam.
love your own mother tongue man and love india

[arunks]

hey shut off this thread...who r u to challenge our national language....

we alll pride our india

[uttoransen]

now hindi is leading 12:10

[aakash_mishra]

Hey guys

Why are we fighting over our National Language????

We should be proud that it Hindi (derived from Sanskrit) is best suited for digital circuits.

So I think Hindi is the best.

In India many ppl do not speak Hindi so for them English or Regional Language is best.

[eagle_y2j]

Originally Posted by ~Phenom~

Hindi is and should remain our national language.

+1

english is international lang. no need to make tis our national lang. BTW hindi is default setting we don't need to change

[rakeshishere]

Mods i request you to plz close such issues regarding language,contry and stupid issues like these..Tell them to discuss such sensitive topics in some other forums

[aakash_mishra]

Originally Posted by rakeshishere

Mods i request you to plz close such issues regarding language,contry and stupid issues like these..Tell them to discuss such sensitive topics in some other forums

hey rakeshishere

I agree with you not only matter concerned to language but any sensitive matter should not be posted in forums.........

Our Country is the best as it is. So guys accept it and plz do not post such threads again.

Well guys you might take it otherwise as I am new to this forum but its a matter concerning about our country guys. Don't flame INDIA...

[anandk]

lets CONTINUE with hindi...we dont want another mess (like mandal) on hands now, do we ?!

[SolidSnake]

Originally Posted by uttoransen

what should be india's national language? Hindi

it should be english, no indian language should be given preference. What kind of logic is that?

hindi, as over 15% of indian people want hindi as national language, and that is majority,as it's arround 9% for bengali, the same is for tamil and all. From where did you get those %s?

or there should be no national language. Doesn't make any sense.

will you prefer national language as, marathi, gujrati, orrisaa, bengla, tamil,
i mean your own mother tungue you will prefer.

let's see what you think about it.

[kumarmohit]

How about machine language ... just joking

[sknowonweb]

Guyz This is a sensitive issue in South . There are more number of Indian forums over this Issue . And all spreads hatred over fellow Indians . Why is such a thing posted here .
I second "rakeshishere" and "desmataks" with "aakash_mishra" over removing/locking the topic

[satyamy]

Hindi was, Hindi is & Hindi Will remain as our National Language
& It Should be
No more discussion needed for this Thing
Now dont waste time anymore

[ravi_9793]

always hindi

[led_shankar]

^^Try convincing the South Indian politicians that. Do you know how much agitation was there on this issue earlier?

[SolidSnake]

Originally Posted by led_shankar

I beg to differ. Hindi is not the national language, just because a majority of people speak it. There are many many many languages in India; We cannot ignore any of them. There have been major riots due to this issue. People take pride in their regional languages, and we cannot afford to alienate them by imposing our language upon them.

Hindi should be the national language for exactly the reason I bolded above. Making Hindi our national language does not mean that other Indian languages are going to be ignored. Infact the kids should be taught more about other parts of India (which unfortunately doesn't happen), I know more about say US than Kerala or Tamil Nadu which presents are sorry picture of our Education System.

From wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi

"The Constitution of India, adopted in 1950, declares Hindi in the Devanagari script the "official language (rājabhāshā) of the Union" (Art. 343(1)). It was envisioned that Hindi would become the sole working language of the central government by 1965, with state governments being free to function in languages of their own choice."

Originally Posted by prakash kerala

English for the sake of ppl who dont know/dont want to learn Hindi apart from north there r ppl like in TamilNaad who dont even get one word in Hindusthaani properly.SO ENGLISH.

Err, but more than 90% of Indians do not understand english, heck more people understand Bengali than English. I can't understand the logic of this English Prem (Love ), a Foreign language which hardly 5-10% of population understands is given so much importance in India at the cost of our own languages. Actually ek story thi na 2 Bandaron (Monkey) aur ek Billi (Cat) ki..wohi ho rahaa hai.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language

"English is today the third or fourth most widely distributed language as a first spoken language in the world, after Mandarin, Hindi, and Spanish (see the ranking). Something around 600 million people use the various dialects of English regularly."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ative_speakers

Another myth propagated is that we cannot progress without English, try asking that from a German, a French, a Japanese, a Korean, a Russian, a Chinese, an Arab, a Spanish, a Portugese, an Italian etc...these in these countries don't care one paisa about English...nor do they understand English, they proudly use their own languages and don't feel embarrased using their own languages.

Angrez to chale gaye lekin Angrezi chhod gaye, it is high time that our languages are given their due.

[led_shankar]

^please don't be emotional, solidsnake

The thing is that English is spoken by a minority of people, but that minority is scattered all over India; The top workforce is well-versed in English.

Germans do not need English because they do not have 114 languages.

[praka123]

Originally Posted by led_shankar

Germans do not need English because they do not have 114 languages.

Exactly.this is the problem being B/B in Hindi speaking belt.these ppl cant get that there r better options than hindi available.please get some toleration towards south indians;they r also proud of their culture.regarding learning hindi as natinonal lang,read what annadurai said :

In an address in 1962, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C N Annadurai made the following statements opposing Hindi imposition: "It is claimed that Hindi should be common language because it is spoken by the majority. Why should we then claim the tiger as our national animal instead of the rat which is so much more numerous? Or the peacock as our national bird when the crow is ubiquitous?"

Annadurai also said, "Since every school in India teaches English, why can't it be our link language? Why do Tamils have to study English for communication with the world and Hindi for communications within India? Do we need a big door for the big dog and a small door for the small dog? I say, let the small dog use the big door too!" [2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Hi...ian_Parlaiment

Anti-Hindi agitation is a term used to describe the opposition the people of Tamil Nadu have voiced to the Indian Government's attempts to establish Hindi as the sole official language of India [1]. Anti Hindi agitation is not a history but its an ongoing agitation or feelings with in Tamils in India.

read here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Hindi_agitations
Clyde Ahmad Winters, who has written extensively on Dravidian origins commented:

"Archaeological and linguistic evidence indicates that the Dravidians were the founders of the Harappan culture which extended from the Indus Valley through northeastern Afghanistan, on into Turkestan. The Harappan civilization existed from 2600-1700 BC. The Harappan civilization was twice the size the Old Kingdom of Egypt. In addition to trade relations with Mesopotamia and Iran, the Harappan city states also had active trade relations with the Central Asian peoples."

source:
http://www.tamilnation.org/heritage/...20Civilisation
mujhe to Hindi thoda bahut aata hei,aur koi dushmani bhi nahin hei hindi bhaasha ke ooper.lekin humein to doosron ke soch-vichar ko bhi dekhna hai aur usko bhi maryaada/aadar dena hai

[mediator]

@uttoransen....national Language English?? Are u alright?? Have u thought about poor people in India?? Majority of India is on poverty line and most people dont even know how to read even hindi, then forget english man!

Neways no one's imposing to speak a particular language! If hindi is spoken and understood by most of the people then whats wrong in making it a national language?? Hindi unites the whole India...coz all understand Hindi. Even the central asia, region around thailand, some foreigners too now understand Hindi pretty well. This is due to large coverage of Bollywood and TV serials to entire world!!

If bangla or Tamil wud have been spoke and understood by many....then no one shud be having problem to accept it as National language! But we have Hindi here as most popular. So Hindi shud be the national language!!!

[praka123]

but i dont say tamil/bangla to be made national language.we dont want imposition of Hindi on south especially Andhra,Tamilnaad and Kerala.their culture is very much diffrnt wrt north.pls read my quotes carefully.if again tr enforcing Hindi,there will be more anger of communities and will result in terrorism(even now exists for eg;ltte for tamil eezham(country)) and seperation from countries main stream.

Majority of India is on poverty line and most people dont even know how to read even hindi, then forget english man!

if someone wanna learn a language learn the Universal language a.k.a ENGLISH y learn hindi which is having less benefit for southerners.instead learning ENGLISH will give them atleast be ready to cop with international jobs.also FYI learning curve for Hindi is much greater than of English why?'coz English words and phrases are used mostly in southern languages thanks 2 Cinema,TV.so Better English as National Language.if u look at the poll all Hindiwalle will vote hindi as they cant think of anything other than hindi.i know the example of north indian ppl mostly BPL coming to south for jobs astonished 2 find there r areas in India where Hindi is notatall understandaeable.in police station in Tamilnaad for eg;looties from north are arrested.now these ppl only knew hindi.so the police searched and found after a day a Dwibhaashi(Translator) for communication.get the facts first.it is exactly like making an European learn Hindi as is the case with us sotherners.