tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1909796954423388613.post3117504621991006562..comments2023-10-11T13:37:46.573+05:30Comments on Verda Stelo: Question of national language in Asia and AfricaVerdaStelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14430769529775101363noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1909796954423388613.post-87373735755257498492012-06-02T21:55:39.132+05:302012-06-02T21:55:39.132+05:30Interesting! I didn't know that! In order word...Interesting! I didn't know that! In order words our government needs to take some heavy handed measures to promote Hindi/Urdu.VerdaStelohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14430769529775101363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1909796954423388613.post-78038131660278219032012-06-01T11:16:16.009+05:302012-06-01T11:16:16.009+05:30SEllamat Eto !
In fact, most European nations were...SEllamat Eto !<br />In fact, most European nations were - still quite recently - multilingual. France has/had many regional languages (even my grandmother had a dialect as motherlanguage), Britain had/has Celtic languages, but they have been disregarded by the central power. THe reason - as in Asia and especially Africa - is a matter of centralization and standardization. Being an official language entails that this language can be used before the courts, can be used to write laws. Once this legal system has been adopted in a country, it is hard to do without the language that was used for those institutions.cafaristeirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915889856526586336noreply@blogger.com