Another reason why you should learn the Indian languages

[honeybee]

Well...

The recent racial abuse scandal that rocked the second test match between Australia and India shows why it is worthwhile to learn the nittigritties of the national language of India. I am actually surprised to see no threads on the topic here. Jethro, where are you mate? And all those others from down under?

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[penagate]

Explain, if you will, why it is worthwhile to learn said nitty-gritties.

[SurfDemon]

Er, we have to learn Hindi, so that we can understand the "mother related" abuse terms being thrown about by the Indian Cricketers? I am confused as to why we would want to do that?

[Foxer]

Siff I care what any Indian cares to mutter in my direction.

[mendhak]

Siff I care what any cricketer cares to mutter. In any direction.

[grilkip]

I hate Native Americans.

[shasunder]

I dont understand why you persons are interested in wasting time talking about racial topics. Are you really enjoying this topic? There are more things to concentrate this world and why spend time in discussing this useless topic...

[capsulecorpjx]

Well...

The recent racial abuse scandal that rocked the second test match between Australia and India shows why it is worthwhile to learn the nittigritties of the national language of India. I am actually surprised to see no threads on the topic here. Jethro, where are you mate? And all those others from down under?

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Isn't the national language of India, English? Or do they have an Indian language as one of the national languages? Othewrise, there are several large dialects in India that can't understand each other.

[penagate]

India's official languages are Hindi and English, but they do have various regional dialects like you say.

[mendhak]

I dont understand why you persons are interested in wasting time talking about racial topics. Are you really enjoying this topic? There are more things to concentrate this world and why spend time in discussing this useless topic...

The irony of your involvement in this discussion is lost on very few.

[shasunder]

There are many languages used in India. Since India is a democratic country it has many religions and many languages. some of the languages are
1. Hindi[1]
2 Bengali
3 Telugu
4 Marathi
5 Tamil
6 Urdu
7 Gujarati
8 Kannada
9 Malayalam
10 Oriya
11 Punjabi
12 Assamese
13 Bhili/Bhilodi
14 Santali
15 Gondi
16 Sindhi
17 Nepali
18 Konkani
19 Tulu
20 Kurukh
21 Meitei (Manipuri)
22 Bodo
23 Khandeshi
24 Ho
25 Khasi
26 Mundari
27 Kokborok
28 Garo
29 Kui
30 Mizo
31 Halabi
32 Korku
33 Munda
34 Mishing
35 Karbi/Mikir
36 Saurashtra
37 Savara
38 Koya
39 Kharia
40 Khond/Kondh
41 English
42 Nishi
43 Ao
44 Sema
45 Kisan
46 Adi
47 Rabha
48 Konyak
49 Malto
50 Thado
51 Tangkhul
52 Kolami
53 Angami
54 Kodagu
55 Dogri
56 Dimasa
57 Lotha
58 Mao
59 Tibetan
60 Kabui (Rongmei)
61 Phom

And it goes....

[shasunder]

Still Wanted more...

Then you can have a look at this site

http://www.kamat.com/indica/diversity/languages.htm

[SurfDemon]

24 Ho

My sister speaks #24 fluently....

[SurfDemon]

Wancho

And my brothers fluent in this one.

[Tom Sawyer]

IIRC, most educated Indians can speak English quite well and you'd expect the national Cricket team to be made up of educated people.

If they're going to make racial slurs towards the Ozzies, wouldn't it make sense to make them in English? There's no point in going through all the trouble of insulting someone if they can't understand that they've been insulted.

[NotLKH]

So what was the dis?

[honeybee]

IIRC, most educated Indians can speak English quite well and you'd expect the national Cricket team to be made up of educated people.

If they're going to make racial slurs towards the Ozzies, wouldn't it make sense to make them in English? There's no point in going through all the trouble of insulting someone if they can't understand that they've been insulted.

Eh, ain't that the point? Fun apart, I think when you are profoundly mad, and if any profanities escape out of your mouth without you thinking twice about it, they would more likely be in your native tongue than in a foreign language. Walking on the road if you happened to kick a block of concrete (accidentally), you are more likely to utter profanities in your native language. Try it out if you don't trust me

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[honeybee]

Siff I care what any cricketer cares to mutter. In any direction.

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[honeybee]

Isn't the national language of India, English? Or do they have an Indian language as one of the national languages? Othewrise, there are several large dialects in India that can't understand each other.

Eh, maybe they thought having an Indian language as their national language would be a tad better than a non-Indian language, they being Indian and all? Mighty interesting possibility there, don't you think?

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[honeybee]

I dont understand why you persons are interested in wasting time talking about racial topics. Are you really enjoying this topic? There are more things to concentrate this world and why spend time in discussing this useless topic...

Apart from the small irony Mendhak mentioned above, you need to understand that it is not a racial topic at all! That's what was decided by the hon'ble Judge Henson!

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[Tom Sawyer]

Eh, ain't that the point? Fun apart, I think when you are profoundly mad, and if any profanities escape out of your mouth without you thinking twice about it, they would more likely be in your native tongue than in a foreign language. Walking on the road if you happened to kick a block of concrete (accidentally), you are more likely to utter profanities in your native language. Try it out if you don't trust me

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That's not racial abuse, though. If you're just muttering to yourself, then it doesn't matter what language you use and it's not any kind of international incident. However, if you're specifically saying things to other people in order to provoke or abuse them then you need to communicate that to them clearly in a language that they can understand.

Anything less is an act of cowardice.

[grilkip]

India is grate.

MAKE INDIA BATTER.

[mendhak]

Cricket is awesome. They should've invented it sooner.

[penagate]

Eh, ain't that the point? Fun apart, I think when you are profoundly mad, and if any profanities escape out of your mouth without you thinking twice about it, they would more likely be in your native tongue than in a foreign language. Walking on the road if you happened to kick a block of concrete (accidentally), you are more likely to utter profanities in your native language. Try it out if you don't trust me

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It depends. Simultaneous multilinguals can 'think' in multiple languages — the profanity is most likely to come from whichever is their primary language at the time. Those who've learnt languages in their teens or as adults are unlikely to develop this ability.

That is a special case, though, since effectively you have more than one 'native' language.