We Indians are the only people who can boast of so many languages. 14 official languages. And there is also the concept of a 'mother tongue' . Not just something that your mother speaks….there is more to it. It is supposed to identify your roots, where you come from and so on. Don't know how much of it holds true for kids nowadays.
Monday, July 31, 2006
What language do you think in????
We Indians are the only people who can boast of so many languages. 14 official languages. And there is also the concept of a 'mother tongue' . Not just something that your mother speaks….there is more to it. It is supposed to identify your roots, where you come from and so on. Don't know how much of it holds true for kids nowadays.
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no, I don't think india has only 14 languages, it should be more.. and besides, china has even more languages than india...
@sweetstuff - india has 14 official languages. there are more dialects of course. around 428 of them, out of which 13 are dead :D
china has more languages that india?
@sweetstuffz - china does not have as many languages as india does unofficially.
One thing I've observed is that it depends on your location. You'd think in a different language in Limassol but would think in a different language if you were in Kerala.
Having said that mine's American English >> N.Indian Hindi >> Malayalam >> Mumbaiya Hindi >> British English in that order :P
@rajesh - I don't know how much of that holds true for me. I always seem to think in eng first no matter where i am and then in malayalam.
One of my frnds told me that he thinks in terms of abstract concepts and ideas and not in a specific language.
@rajesh - but boy oh boy! u seem to have one complex thought pattern. Don't you ever get confused? :D
The process is natural :) hence no confusion ...
i dont kno if u have noticed this D but we both always knew english more than mal...i cant even remember if i used to speak in eng or mal at home when i was a kid but i remember that we used to always converse in english from childhood...its bad coz we are not that great in our mother tongue and we have to admit it became better once we went to college but at the same time we didnt end up gettting that "thrissur bhasha" and we got the proper mal that our family speak...im not proud that i dont kno mal but im happy i dont speak in thrissur bhasha...many people still dont believe that im from that place but many think im a muslim coz i have that mal(dont kno where i got that malappurram bhasha)
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