tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175348182143701206.post5934417983224583908..comments2023-12-17T14:30:09.107+05:30Comments on KARNATIQUE: Linguistic Chauvinism: The True Face of the Language of National IntegrationKiran Batnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275674146188053027noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175348182143701206.post-67896157703670181282017-04-20T00:34:23.558+05:302017-04-20T00:34:23.558+05:30Thank you for writing this. Do you think, however,...Thank you for writing this. Do you think, however, that the same sense of alienation exists among the smaller languages of the Hindustan belt as exists amongst speakers of Dravidian languages? Its also been a curiosity of mine as an outsider to their culture how the bhojpuri or bundeli speaker regards the dissipation of their language and identity. My assumption has been that the common descent from Shauraseni prakrit perhaps 15 centuries ago has allowed some residual affinity to persist. Interestingly, although this family includes Gujarati and Punjabi, and those linguistic groups have maintained their identities, it is towards the Magadhi prakrit regions of Bihar that Hindi has assimilated new 'native' speakers. The long arc of history has seen gangetic civilization's center of gravity slowly migrate from east to west. The cultural prestige of Bihar has receded to point that they don't dignify their languages as anything more than dialects (I generalize, but i have yet to meet these resistors to hindi hegemony outside of activist circles, whereas in dravidian regions linguistic honor is a fairly common sentiment) <br /> Karnataka's cultural distance from hindustan, and the fundamental dissimilarity of Kannada to Hindi, is so obvious that a complete capitulation to Hindi supremacy is unlikely in the near term. My concern is the longer horizon , of sleepwalking into an irreversible union where our language and heritage have been so uncultivated for generations and knowledge of our people's history so obscured, that we look for meaning in the colonist's culture and not our own. I think this process is well underway. Unfortunately, and at our own peril, this issue is dismissed as alarmism. Ghataprabhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18053031856103061349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175348182143701206.post-41517421492544201822017-04-15T10:29:26.444+05:302017-04-15T10:29:26.444+05:30If Garhwali is a dialect of Hindi, then why Dogri ...If Garhwali is a dialect of Hindi, then why Dogri is not a dialect of Punjabi? Dogri has a thousand times more nearness to standard Punjabi than the languages like Garhwali and Hindi have.Joga Virkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11117753449514026619noreply@blogger.com