12-27-2007, 09:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-27-2007, 09:21 PM by Bharatvarsh.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Bharatvarsh, the khari-boli version of Hindi was also Sanskrit heavy only.
The Urdu-bastardized Hindi is not what Khari-boli was. It was just a accent-less dialect of North India, if you will, and still Sanskrit-nishtha.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What I was trying to get at was as you once said before, Khariboli can be divided into two branches, the one near to the East (Varanasi etc) being much more Sanskrit heavy, but the official one chosen to me seems to have been from the West which has less Sanskrit because I remember when I studied Hindi we were taught kitab, sawal, jawab instead of pustak, prashna, uttar. Now I don't know why this was decided because the biggest chunk of Bharat that is usually not familiar with Hindi is the South (other areas having some contact through Bollywood and also their languages being closer to Hindi) and to people in the South it is much more easier to understand Sanskrit heavy Hindi than anything else (infact it would be much more easier for me to understand Bhojpuri if it wasn't so accent pronounced).
I guess this goes back to your old post:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->So, after very interesting and much heated debates, they agreed upon a language of less 'deshaj' content and dialectic tone - called Khadi Boli. For Khadi Boli too, there were two variants - that of Delhi/Punjab/West_UP or that of Varanasi/East_UP. The latter draws from Sanskrit vocabulary as the primary source, and the former from Farsi/Urdu. For different reasons, the former was chosen.
Then a talented young poet and professor, also having clout with Nehrus was picked up as the GOI's ambassador to promote this language as the national language, and formulate govt's policies. Dr. Harivansha Rai Bachchan. However, much of the literature as well as Doordarshan's Hindi continued to be Khadi Boli of Sanskrit leanings, until recently. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Besides the fact that Sanskrit was not revived, the less Sanskrit heavy Khariboli was rammed down our throats, to me that is a double whammy.
The Urdu-bastardized Hindi is not what Khari-boli was. It was just a accent-less dialect of North India, if you will, and still Sanskrit-nishtha.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What I was trying to get at was as you once said before, Khariboli can be divided into two branches, the one near to the East (Varanasi etc) being much more Sanskrit heavy, but the official one chosen to me seems to have been from the West which has less Sanskrit because I remember when I studied Hindi we were taught kitab, sawal, jawab instead of pustak, prashna, uttar. Now I don't know why this was decided because the biggest chunk of Bharat that is usually not familiar with Hindi is the South (other areas having some contact through Bollywood and also their languages being closer to Hindi) and to people in the South it is much more easier to understand Sanskrit heavy Hindi than anything else (infact it would be much more easier for me to understand Bhojpuri if it wasn't so accent pronounced).
I guess this goes back to your old post:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->So, after very interesting and much heated debates, they agreed upon a language of less 'deshaj' content and dialectic tone - called Khadi Boli. For Khadi Boli too, there were two variants - that of Delhi/Punjab/West_UP or that of Varanasi/East_UP. The latter draws from Sanskrit vocabulary as the primary source, and the former from Farsi/Urdu. For different reasons, the former was chosen.
Then a talented young poet and professor, also having clout with Nehrus was picked up as the GOI's ambassador to promote this language as the national language, and formulate govt's policies. Dr. Harivansha Rai Bachchan. However, much of the literature as well as Doordarshan's Hindi continued to be Khadi Boli of Sanskrit leanings, until recently. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Besides the fact that Sanskrit was not revived, the less Sanskrit heavy Khariboli was rammed down our throats, to me that is a double whammy.