--- Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 Charles-H.Schulz wrote : > [...] > >Very encouraging indeed. There seems to be other > big languages > >(constitutional ones) such as Sindhi and Kashmiri, > but how about > >Hindustani? I've heard it's not a > constitutionally-recognized > >language, but that it is spoken by many. Could it > also help boost > >the adoption of OOo? > > There is no such language called Hindustani > nowadays. Hindustani was > the name given by the British to an egalitarian > language that shaded > into dialects spoken over a large portion of India. 'Hindustani' is a language coming out of the concept of Mahatma Gandhi. According to Gandhi the lang which is spoken by the people of India ie Hindustan is Hindustani. http://www.mahatma.org.in/lastmonth/lastmonth.jsp?id=9&link=ld&cat=lastmonth This line of Gandhi was a startegic line to calm down the fight between Hindi and Urdu during India's struggle for Independence. You can understand this coneptual language as a mix of languages spoken particularly in North India particularly of Hindi and Urdu. Actually what people spoke here in India is a mix of languages so in this context this is true. But this language is not is the list of 21 langs that is recognised by govt of India and is in the schedule of constitution of India. Actually once 4-5 yrs before Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University (www.hindivishwa.org) thought to start a big programme for this concept but due to the change of VC of Univ by last govt everything went in trash. Regards, Rajesh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
