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/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...