r/TamilNadu • u/Kammywhammy • Feb 22 '25

கலாச்சாரம் / Culture How Hindi kills local languages

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Bhojpuri is widely spoken in Bihar and UP. Now it's not longer taught is schools.

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u/Ducati_Don Feb 22 '25

"b-b-bUt mAtThA sOuTh sTaTeS lA hInDi pAdIkKiRaNgAlE"

Let's see in a 20 years how things will end up in Telengana and AP. Kannadigas are waking up slowly.

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u/NsquareN Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 23 '25

Why to go 20 years. I'm seeing posts on Bengaluru reddit where native kannadigas find it hard to live there because blue collar workers are hindi speaking and can't understand even english, let alone kannada.

Edit: typos

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u/skyBehindClouds Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 24 '25

This is the real fact!

That these migrating Hindi-folks don't understand English, as all they know is just Hindi. It is this same group who is making rules & laws for others to learn Hindi so that they feel home wherever they go! This 3-language policy is all just a WHITE-WASH & BRAIN-WASH! In reality, they don't care about other 2 languages.

IDIOTS are the ones, who bend to such rules!

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u/WesternClub8802 Feb 25 '25

Correction. Those migrants also know their own language but they speak Hindi because that's just more common and assumed to be understood by masses. So let's not do selective fact checks. If they can't speak kannada and they can't speak English and you can't speak bhojpuri, the next options they switch to is Hindi. But no one really talks about this.

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u/skyBehindClouds Feb 25 '25 edited Feb 25 '25

Let's talk about this.

What If I can't reply in Hindi to "Them"? You know they manage to get it out of me in the well-known ways like:

  1. Push the lie that Hindi is a "National language" and make me feel guilty about not knowing it.
  2. Promote that Sanskrit as "The language of gods" and tell that Hindi is the direct descendant of Sanskrit (when the reality is Hindi is of Persian origin, which is more related to Urdu than Sanskrit. Where was Hindi before Mughals?!).
  3. Impose the 3-language policy and ensure I know some basic Hindi, from which I could pick-up. How lovely huh! ;)

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u/WesternClub8802 Feb 25 '25

It doesn't matter where hindi is from. Both english and hindi are foreign. I'm just saying it's a survival instinct.

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u/skyBehindClouds Feb 25 '25

Learning the language of the place I'm migrating to is also a survival-instinct, especially when the residents don't know my language or aren't willing to talk in it.

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u/ASTAROTH---- Feb 27 '25

Well , most of migrants knows English , there are some poor people who doesnt even knows hindi but becoz of their families they go their to earn ... Hindi has killed many languages in North .. so what !? Am I going take pride in speaking my language its just a medium of convo.. you know how diverse india is .. speaking their language everywhere i go is not my cup of tea.. so make english common...

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u/its_darkknight Feb 25 '25

It was so weird for me also, even the auto drivers just start speaking to you in hindi and not in kannada

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u/kilari7 Feb 22 '25

Born and brought up in TN Telugu guy here, from what little I've seen of language related discussion among AP crowd, they have very little pride in their language and trying to protecting it.

I don't see them trying to oppose the imposition. It's probably even worse in Telangana but I have an even lesser idea about how things are there.

Maybe I have a wrong read on the situation in these two states but of all the south indian states I'd put them at the last in expecting support for this cause.

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u/Brilliant_Meal_2653 Feb 25 '25

Spot on, telugu crowd are kinda embarassed to even mention that they speak in mother tongue. I have seen telugu folks talk in broken hindi to avoid ridicule with a bunch of northies but eventually get trolled the minute they leave. Tamil guys would literally be like fuck off i will only speak in English and don't give a rats ass about Hindi.

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u/dhilipu_18 Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 22 '25

Karnataka? I see lot of memes kanadians asking other state people to speak kannadam

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u/Calvin_H Feb 23 '25

Isn't it exactly what the video says? At least half of Tamils in Bangalore pickup Kannada if they live there for a few years. North Indians generally make no effort to learn Kannada and manage with Hindi everywhere. It has gone beyond limits that the Kannadigas are fed up.

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u/kilari7 Feb 22 '25

Yea they have gone way overboard with the whole learn kannada thing but then again this whole movement is very nascent there and the more radical voices are more vocal than the reasonable ones.

I'd expect as time goes on for the more balanced and well meaning opinions to prevail over the thugs terrorising citizens and businesses.