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Commonness of Indian Languages
by deepak on Sep 08, 2008 08:02 PM

There is too much stress on differences of Indian languages rather than celebration of the commonality. Most Indian languages are Sanskrit dependent, including South Indian languages like Telugu, Kannada, Malaylam and even Tamil. The Devanagri script with little modification is used in all Indian languages except Urdu & Sindhi. Why Indian linguists & educationists failed to see this commonality is amazing. The Sanskrit script is used all over South Asia including Javanese, Thai, Burmeses etc...It is time to sit together and seek out what brings the languages together. Hindi drifting away to Urdu because of Bollywood makes the uniformity difficult. Hindi and Urdu should develop separately.

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