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 > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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