the loss of bangaldesh was not because of language it was because west pakistan did not see it as an equal to it.....at that time the majority of west pakistanis considered themselves superior....bangladesh would have been created sooner or later it did not have a future with present day pakistan - not with india in the middle.....and the attitude of people from west pakistan
the loss of other provinces will not be because of language but because of resource distribution/provincial rights......
India is different.....not all people from south india speak hindi...iindia is a far more ethnically diverse country than pakistan....for them to unite around one language it is much harder....some south indians refuse to speak hindi.....but when conversing with north indians they have to speak english.....
just some questions:-
1. what role would do the official languages in india play? i know that punjabis, gujaratis, tamils, malyalam speakers and probably all the rest can write to each other in their own language.....i mean if a ggujarati wanted to write to another gujarati they would write the letter in gujatati and not in hindi....in pakistan one could only write in urdu and english to one another..mother tongues play a small role....
2. which langauges would be made official exactly in pakistan? all of them or just the major regional languages?
what role would these langauges have in a day to day and public basis?
3. what would happen to urdu? urdu is already suffering because of the mushrooming of english language schools.
4. those who are fond of their own languages of course hate urdu....most of them hate the idea of pakistan....they dont have a problem with urdu but the idea of pakistan...thats nationalists for you! they are the only ones who feel that urdu if forced upon them. i have never heard a common pashtun, sindhi, punjabi, seraiki, balochi, gilgiti, hunzai, kashmiri comlain about urdu - its mostly educated people who are nationalists - your average poor non-urdu speaker does nt really give two hoots about langauge......fair enough they may not speak it fleuntly and may struggle but in some cases its either urdu or nothing...
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Originally Posted by Spock
joke sahib, though its too late to change, we've already lost east pakistan, and thanks to some events, close to losing another part of Pakistan, but we dont necessarily need to have 'one national language'. As I stated earlier, India does not have hindi as their national language, but instead have about 17 official languages, and its worked out wonders for them.
I like the language, but in General people of Pakistan, majority of them who prefer their provincial languages arent very fond of it. Its one of the things that they think is forcefully attributed to them, and makes them wary of not only the Govt, but the native speakers of the Urdu language.
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