Ravi shankar said: > If your ambition is to teach the mother tongues for the convent educated > minority English speaking Indians through a Wiki project and then make them > contribute in Indic language Wikipedias, it may never happen. I am not even > sure if it fits inside Wikipedia's mission. >
Yes. that is true. I do not forsee such a thing happening for Indic wikis. :) Is Gerard is trying to convey the idea of *Mother Language illiteracy? *Remember by illiteracy of a language, we mean the inability *to read or write*(rather than speaking) that specific language. I must say Mother Language illiteracy is rising in Indian cities and in some states (for example, Kerala). In fact if you go through the discussions that I am sharing with you (about different language wiki communities), many Indic language wikipedians are also raising the same concern. Shiju On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhada...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen < > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> The one thing I have come to understand is that many native speakers of >> Indic languages are effectively illiterate in their own language. The >> combination of highly educated people being functionally illiterate had me >> talking with many people. Given the structure of the Indic scripts, it is >> possible for me to learn to read the text; it will get me as far as >> pronouncing something I do not know the meaning of. For native speakers it >> must be not that hard at all when they surmounted the challenge of learning >> to read and write English already. >> > > Dear Gerard, > > I am intrigued by this, yet struggling to understand what you mean here. > > Do you mean that many educated people can speak their own language, but > not read or write it? (because they communicate in English instead). If so, > that is probably true - but is that what you mean? > > For example, my mother tongue is Bengali - I speak it much more than I > read or write it (even though I can read and write in Bengali), since I > usually read and write in English. However, there are many people in India > who have the opposite experience eg who not just speak, but also read and > write in indic languages. > > Cheers > Bishakha > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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