I am Urdu

[rockstar08]

I am Legend

 

[atatwolf]

Replace your mother tongue with Urdu. For the sake of Pakistan's unity. The great Ataturk did that with Turkey.. I guess. But I'm not sure how multilingual Turks were at the time. @atatwolf @Sinan

People can speak whatever language but language of the state and public places is Turkish. When the Turkish Republic was founded 30% of Turks were Balkan Turks. They already spoke Turkish which also counts for Circassians, Arabs and Armenians. Language of the state was also Turkish in ottoman times.

 

[Butchcassidy]

How is that relevant?The author is of a Mohajir background.

Then for urduwalas, urdu mein guftagu kara karo, urdu mein

 

[Kolachi Punjabi]

Nobody use poetic vocabulary in day to day Urdu.

I've heard many indians say the Urdu spoken by Pakistanis whether in speeches,talkshows or dramas, sounds poetic to them -they don't mean 'poetic' like in shairi but poetic in it's sound, like how italian is considered a sensual language

Then for urduwalas, urdu mein guftagu kia karo, urdu mein

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[Butchcassidy]

I've heard many indians say the Urdu spoken by Pakistanis whether in speeches,talkshows or dramas, sounds poetic to them -they don't mean 'poetic' like in shairi but poetic in it's sound, like how italian is considered a sensual language


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Thank u

 

[jamahir]

I don't think Urdu words can be expressed with roman alphabets.

can you think of examples at this moment, and put them in whatever close roman word you can achieve??

Nobody use poetic vocabulary in day to day Urdu.

true... i just feel it is undemocratic to keep a entire vocabulary for "urdu poets".

American: I love you. Will you write me?
Brit: Will I write you what, a prescription?
American: No, I mean will you write me?
Brit: A postcard? A poem?
American: I want you to write me.
Brit: You want me to write the word me?
American: No, will you WRITE me?
Brit: WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO WRITE?
American: I just want you to write me!
Brit: GAAAAH! Et cetera.

there is that.

 

[Sugarcane]

Vocabulary of Urdu is mostly from Farsi,Turkic,Sanskrit and Arabic, the so called "Hindi and Punjabi" words are actually all derived from Sanskrit, and Urdu like Punjabi is based in Sanskrit but majority of Urdu's vocab is from the other languages i mentioned.

EDIT: Punjabi and to lesser degree Hindi has many borrowed words from Farsi and Arabic, so Punjabi isn't some pure Indic language either

Kaan idhar se nahi tu odhar se pakar lo, Base of both Urdu & Hindi is Khariboli/Hindustani, Punjabi is child of Sanskrit and as much old (if not more) as Khariboli/Hindustani.... While Urdu is merely few centuries old.

All languages borrow words from others, but Urdu is unique language which is totally borrowed.

 

[-SINAN-]

Replace your mother tongue with Urdu. For the sake of Pakistan's unity. The great Ataturk did that with Turkey - must speak only Turkish in public.. I guess. But I'm not sure how multilingual Turks were at the time. @atatwolf @Sinan

Nope, he changed alphabet.

We were already speaking Turkish.

 

[Sugarcane]

Replace your mother tongue with Urdu. For the sake of Pakistan's unity. The great Ataturk did that with Turkey - must speak only Turkish in public.. I guess. But I'm not sure how multilingual Turks were at the time. @atatwolf @Sinan

A Bengali should be last one to give lecture on replacing mother tongue with Urdu. My love for Punjabi is not on expense of national unity.

 

[Shamain]

I've heard many indians say the Urdu spoken by Pakistanis whether in speeches,talkshows or dramas, sounds poetic to them -they don't mean 'poetic' like in shairi but poetic in it's sound, like how italian is considered a sensual language


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I will tell u what is poetic-ness, its actually the politness.
Its basically the respectful manner it offers one to address others, and its polite and beautiful rich tone which sets it so apart.
You dont need to go flowery useage way, getting too shusta could be hard for some, stick to average urdu with accurate and polite grammar ,pronouns useage. Thats it.
This is where some perhaps see the poetic sense in it.

Else unless someone is getting all poetic in conversation and voc useage its pretty normal language. very rich language provides you with an opp to express all ur emotions.

 

[Kolachi Punjabi]

Kaan idhar se nahi tu odhar se pakar lo, Base of both Urdu & Hindi is Khariboli/Hindustani, Punjabi is child of Sanskrit and as much old (if not more) as Khariboli/Hindustani.... While Urdu is merely few centuries old.

All languages borrow words from others, but Urdu is unique language which is totally borrowed.

lol okay you sound like you a punjabi nationalist agenda

all languages borrow from each other anways, and so does punjabi; sanskrit is the base of all indo aryan languages including urdu.

Urdu started development in the times of Delhi sultanate at least back in 12th century but progressed into it's present form 300 years ago; Punjabi is not some very old language anyways like urdu, hell there was no Punjab 500 years ago until Mughals carved a province from Sindh Sagar, and then a language from the region began being called Punjabi, the rest of Punjab was later added by conquests of Ranjit Singh such as Waseb and Potohar, even then Punjabi was never official language, even during local rule of Sikhs empire, Farsi was the language of administration, language of elites and lingua franca

It's okay for you to love your first language, it's also my father's language but don't make lies to appease your inner chauvinist.

Fortunately most Punjabis don't have such an attitude towards Urdu, the ones that do probably speak like Sheikh Rasheed hence the acrimony towards it

 

[Sugarcane]

've heard many indians say the Urdu spoken by Pakistanis whether in speeches,talkshows or dramas, sounds poetic to them -they don't mean 'poetic' like in shairi but poetic in it's sound, like how italian is considered a sensual language

In their opinion Urdu and Hindi are same language just script is different, so anything which is difficult for them to understand becomes poetic Persian or Arabic

 

[Samandri]

I have no problem with urdu language itself but it should not be taught beyond Matric, it is un-necessary burden on F.Sc students.......Also Science and Mathematics books shouldnt be in Urdu. There should be no Urdu medium Schools.

 

[jamahir]

Also Science and Mathematics books shouldnt be in Urdu. There should be no Urdu medium Schools.

this seems to be a india/pakistan thing... urdu medium schools.

 

[livingdead]

"I don’t consider people who don’t speak Irish to be Irish. They are victims of colonialism and nothing else."

seriously? Irish are free people of a free nation, some still chose to speak irish, and many dont but should it not be left to them?