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| lloydkirk Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6498 days ago 429 posts - 452 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian | Message 33 of 53 16 November 2007 at 2:58pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'm not going to argue with you about it. I've dabbled in several indian languages, including hindu/urdu and any linguist would admit the differences between hindi/urdu aside from script are mainly political, just like serbo-croatian. Punjabi forms a dialect continuum with hindu/urdu. I have hindu speaking friends from east india and they understand a great deal of both written and spoken punjabi. To master the language would be trivial for any hindi/urdu speakers. However, I congratulate you on your 'accomplishments'. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| xtremelingo Trilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6372 days ago 398 posts - 515 votes Speaks: English*, Hindi*, Punjabi* Studies: German, French, Arabic (Written) | Message 34 of 53 19 November 2007 at 8:14am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Lloyd,
Like I said,
It is completely possible for a Hindu person to be Punjabi. Punjab is just a region of India. There are Christian-Punjabi's, Hindu-Punjabi's, Muslim-Punjabi's, Sikh-Punjabis, etc. But this does not imply that ALL hindu's are punjabi. It is very likely, your Hindu friends are Punjabi. If they are not, it is very likely they are from at least a region NORTH of Delhi i.e. Uttar Pradesh. People south of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, generally do NOT understand Punjabi at all -- even if they know Hindi. There are Hindi and Urdu speakers that are NOT Punjabi. To really understand how this works, you need to understand that almost every state in India has their own official language + the national official language (Hindi). In Punjab State, the state official language is Punjabi, and the national is always Hindi in every state. However, if you were in Tamil-Nadu, your state language would be Tamil, and your national language would be Hindi. In Tamil-Nadu, you could still speak Hindi and/or Tamil but you would NOT know Punjabi nor would Punjabi work there. Because, these areas are geographically, ethnically and linguistically extremely different. The only reason why anyone in Tamil-Nadu or Punjab would know Hindi is simply because it is OFFICIAL. This is why I recommend those that plan to study Indian languages, start with Hindi, instead of a state-language, i.e. Punjabi, Gujrati, Tamil etc. Because, you get more mileage with Hindi overall, since it is spoken in virtually all states, whereas state languages are NOT spoken in all states. As for Urdu. A Tamil or Bihari-Hindi speaker would never understand an Urdu speaker in a million years. Edited by xtremelingo on 19 November 2007 at 8:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| lloydkirk Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6498 days ago 429 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian | Message 35 of 53 19 November 2007 at 7:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Most of your long post is irrelevant to the matter at hand. My friends are from east India and they are not Punjabi. They merely capitalize on the great similarities between the two languages. Anyways, the claim that you "speak 4 languages at native level" is a great exaggeration of the reality.
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| manny Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6443 days ago 248 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Tagalog Studies: French, German | Message 36 of 53 19 November 2007 at 9:18pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
You may have some valid points, but his profile says "Trilingual Triglot" so he does not claim four. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| lloydkirk Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6498 days ago 429 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian | Message 37 of 53 19 November 2007 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Apparently, he doesn't think his profile does him justice. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| manny Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6443 days ago 248 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Tagalog Studies: French, German | Message 38 of 53 19 November 2007 at 10:44pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Ooops. I missed that one. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7100 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 39 of 53 20 November 2007 at 5:54pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Guys, lets return to the topic at hand.
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| Zhuangzi Nonaglot Language Program Publisher Senior Member Canada lingq.com Joined 7113 days ago 646 posts - 688 votes Speaks: English*, French, Japanese, Swedish, Mandarin, Cantonese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian | Message 40 of 53 01 December 2007 at 3:03pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I consider myself fluent in the following languages, in declining order of proficiency.
English, French, Japanese,Mandarin, Spanish, Swedish, German, Italian, Cantonese Fluency does not mean perfection or native speaker ability. It means that I can participate in most discussions, do business, read, understand movies etc. I have some knowledge of Russian, Korean and Portuguese. I intend to become fluent in all three before moving on to more languages. I do not believe there is a limit of seven. I use or have used all of the nine languages that I speak fluently in my business and social activities. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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