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. > > I guess my point is to distinguish between illiteracy and non-use or low use (in reading and writing), which is more my personal situ on Bengali, Hindi, Marathi. So I feel like there may be three or more categories of persons for each language: -Speakers who read and write in that lang -Speakers who don't read and write in that lang (non or low users) -Speakers who don't know how to read and write in that lang (illiterate, although I don't like the word) And agree with Ravi that it would be hard to get both those who are not literate in a language or low users of it to contribute in that language. For example, I would be reluctant to contribute in the languages I speak, but don't write or read in everyday, even though I am technically literate in them. Cheers Bishakha
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