This reminded me of a video I saw once, many years ago. It was told by the last speaker of a language - from a tribe in El Salvador, iirc (Central America, for sure). Most of his tribe had been wiped out during civil war. He and his parents were the last living speakers of their language. When his parents died, he was the last. The video was a long, tearful poem, telling the story of his people and their destruction. Of course, no one could understand a word of it but him, but the emotion was unmistakable.
A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages
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Re: A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages
#12I had a chance to visit one of academy he helped establish, adivasi academy(their domain name has expired), tejgarh, vadodra. I really liked how he played the role of catalyst in helping local people recognize their own culture and preserve it. [Edit]: My bad for linking to the infested URL, didn't realize it.
That link looks very virus infested, beware.
probably ransomware: https://www.2-spyware.com/remove-the-arialtext-font-was-not-...
It's some js file that loads exe files. How would they get executed than? Another prompt to manually do so?
edit: thanks for removing the link :)
Re: A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages
#13The BBC has to get an anti-Modi (Prime Minister of India) jab in: "He worries about the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP's efforts to impose Hindi all over India, which he calls a "direct attack on our linguistic plurality". " Various governments in Delhi, throughout history, have toyed with the idea of making Hindi the national language. It hasn't happened yet, and won't happen. But, of course, the BBC would like you to…
What other governments did is irrelevant. Those governments are out of power and incapable of doing anything. Modi is, so of course you'd talk about him. And let's be fair: I'm 30 years old and I haven't seen Hindi imposition pursued with as much zeal as it has been in the past 3 years.
I have not felt it to be the same, looks like a lot of this is in your or the media's imagination
Re: A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages
#14The BBC has to get an anti-Modi (Prime Minister of India) jab in: "He worries about the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP's efforts to impose Hindi all over India, which he calls a "direct attack on our linguistic plurality". " Various governments in Delhi, throughout history, have toyed with the idea of making Hindi the national language. It hasn't happened yet, and won't happen. But, of course, the BBC would like you to…
that is just the BBC being BBC, i mean nothing short of a highly detailed analysis showing their bias against India would even change the image to a western crowd about an issue like this.
Re: A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages
#15I had a chance to visit one of academy he helped establish, adivasi academy(their domain name has expired), tejgarh, vadodra. I really liked how he played the role of catalyst in helping local people recognize their own culture and preserve it. [Edit]: My bad for linking to the infested URL, didn't realize it.
That link looks very virus infested, beware. probably ransomware: https://www.2-spyware.com/remove-the-arialtext-font-was-not-... It's some js file that loads exe files. How would they get executed than? Another prompt to manually do so? edit: thanks for removing the link :)
I concur, it tried to do the same thing for me.
" The "Mercury Text" font was not found. The web page you are trying to load is displayed incorrectly, as it uses the "Mercury Text" font. To fix the error and display the next, you have to update the "Mozilla Font Pack"."
Re: A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages
#16Happy to see BBC highlight something positive about India for a change instead of rape stories
They’ll probably add a couple of rapes tomorrow to make up for it.
Re: A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages
#17The BBC has to get an anti-Modi (Prime Minister of India) jab in: "He worries about the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP's efforts to impose Hindi all over India, which he calls a "direct attack on our linguistic plurality". " Various governments in Delhi, throughout history, have toyed with the idea of making Hindi the national language. It hasn't happened yet, and won't happen. But, of course, the BBC would like you to…
Please don't take HN threads in flamewar directions. You managed to damage this one considerably, and it breaks the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Re: A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages
#18The BBC has to get an anti-Modi (Prime Minister of India) jab in: "He worries about the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP's efforts to impose Hindi all over India, which he calls a "direct attack on our linguistic plurality". " Various governments in Delhi, throughout history, have toyed with the idea of making Hindi the national language. It hasn't happened yet, and won't happen. But, of course, the BBC would like you to…
I am from Kerala (South India). Hindi imposition never bothered me until the last 2 years. I don't know if it's media's effect, but it is a really valid concern for me. Considering that Kerala exists more or less thanks to money from Gulf countries and little help from the center, I won't mind a separation either.
Re: A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages
#19The BBC has to get an anti-Modi (Prime Minister of India) jab in: "He worries about the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP's efforts to impose Hindi all over India, which he calls a "direct attack on our linguistic plurality". " Various governments in Delhi, throughout history, have toyed with the idea of making Hindi the national language. It hasn't happened yet, and won't happen. But, of course, the BBC would like you to…
Please don't take HN threads in flamewar directions. You managed to damage this one considerably, and it breaks the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .
I was objecting to a mischaracterization in the article. I took a literal quote from the article and objected to it; I did not make it up, or change topics.
Re: A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages
#20One of the main reason behind the 'developing' state of India even after 70 years of independence is its differences which Indians still have in their mind. The language barrier is the only barrier which is proving to be resistance let alone culture prevention and all that. Languages are just a form of communication between people and people should accept it. People should learn languages like English(Which have vast amount of resources available).As the growing trends suggest India will be the most populated country after 2020 and it will have around 70% of the citizens who will be youngsters. Believe it or not but sooner or later English will dominate(though i believe it's still dominating to bridge the gap between south and north india). In india you can't surf internet properly if you don't have any clue about English and india do have maximum number of smartphone users around the world and that will ofcourse help remove some sort of language barrier between people.
Also Modi do promote Hindi(though his mother tongue is gujarati) but I believe he does so because he finds himself more proficent orator in the language.
China is one more country which is preserving its culture by speaking chinese and i don't think anyone should stop someone to do so.Though it would be better if there is one unique language with which people should feel unity among themselves.