File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2001/postcolonial.0110, message 198


From: "Salil Tripathi" <salil61-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: humble request for information
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 19:25:16 +0000




Josna

But would it be fair to characterize Hindi and Urdu as same? In the last 50 
years Hindi has been Sanskritized so much, and Urdu Arabicized so much, that 
the old Hindustani, Gandhi's, and Bose's, choice language, is being lost. 
(Interestingly, Azad Hind Times, Bose's newspaper in Singapore, was 
published in Hindustani using the Roman script -- a forerunner to Bahasa 
Indonesia/Malaysia? They use Jawi script too, which is derived from 
Arabic......)

Salil


>From: Josna Rege <Josna.Rege-AT-dartmouth.edu>
>Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: humble request for information
>Date: 11 Oct 2001 13:51:09 EDT
>
>--- You wrote:
>hey folks,
>
>my question is: does anyone on this list know of a situation in which the
>opposite situation obtains? i.e. that a common spoken language is
>'expressed' (ugh) in two or more mutually unintelligible writing systems?
>--- end of quote ---
>
>Hindi-Urdu is written both in the Devanagiri script and in the Arabic 
>script.
>
>Josna
>
>
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