samv
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We Indians don't feel ashamed of our mother tongue and don't kill our mother tongue for sake of a national language. Look in Pakistan, a Punjabi always considers his mother tongue Punjabi language inferior to Urdu language.
Don't you think that the Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Bengali languages in India take a secondary role to Hindi? It's a different matter with the South Indian languages I think.
This one serious problem i noticed when attempting to write wiki articles in Hindi, many Hindi words did not have an english equivalent , like for example the word "missile". there are 2 problems with this:
1. Our languages are not catching up and slowing becoming obsolete
2. Our next generation of kids too will learn science in english, in other words they may see english as medium for learning or developing.
This is very true of not only India, but most South Asian countries. It is a shame that Hindi is not adopting because it does have the capability to be a very well known language spoken by hundreds of millions of people and be the lingua franca of South Asia. I wonder whether the long history of colonialism in the region is one of the reasons for this. It is quite impressive how with China, everything is in Chinese.