Sharing a news also (related to Mother language illiteracy). http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2008011357590300.htm&date=2008/01/13/&prd=th&
Shiju On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonl...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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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