Progress Of Indic Languages Vs English

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Thanks Bharatvarsh.

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Luccha is a term of abuse in Telugu (well not a strong dose of abuse), I am not sure what it means since I never used it
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It generally means a small-time chhota-mota pick-pocket scale thief.

however the original term in prakrit meant something entirely different. in Jain traditions, luchchaNa is a samskara. luchcha in that context means a sanyasi (shramaNa) who has pulled his (or her) hair oneself. (which is one of the steps in the process of tapascharya)

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->(my abuses are more in the Omkaara range).
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<!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> I am trying to imagine.

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->what is rainbow in Bhojpuri
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I have heard indradhanush (most frequent), and also ramadhanush (least frequent), and dhanuk. But I shall check with more authoritative sources and get back.

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Also I wanted to ask, are Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Braj etc at present considered dialects of Hindi or have gained a separate language status?
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Bhojpuri, Braj, Bundelkhandi, Awadhi etc. are very much dialects today while Hindi is undoubtably the main language. A couple hundred years back Hindi of today or 'khadi-boli' of back then, was also one of the dialects like these. But because of the inherent flexibility it grew and was accepted as a common language by all dialects. The process was very natural.

The predecessor to khadi-boli was what is known as sadhukkadi boli - dialect of sadhus. There was a trend earlier that a large number of people used to just run away from homes and become sadhus. These sadhu-s used to roam around in groups. Since they came from all over the place - practically from whole India, a language evolved amongst them that was a khichadi of all sorts of dialects. This came to be known as "sadhukkadi". Kabir spoke this tongue in his discourses, so did Gorakh a few centuries before him and Nanak a few centuries after him. Even the writer of Bhaktamaal - whose mother tongue was telugu - used this sadhukkadi. So with that mixture, slowly developed a common khadi boli - and after much reformation in language, thanks to Bharatendu Harishchandra - we came at Hindi. (again, Harishchandra's mother tongue was Braja, with influence of Bangla since his family came from bengal)

Today, all these dialects are very alive, as peoples languages. At home vast majority will speak in these dialects. I always speak awadhi at home with my parents. Hindi remains the connecter language, and the medium of more intellectual and polished discourse.

Now there is emerging an unfortunate angle. A recent trend shows that some people of bhojpuri region are now taking offence at it being called a dialect. Bhojpuri intellectuals (with money coming from Fiji, Mauritius, Suriname, Holland etc.) these days call Hindi as a threat (not so much English or Urdu!!!) to the survival of their language. There was an ugly scene in the last years International Bhojpuri Conference at Varanasi, when chief guest (a known Hindi literature leader from the region) began speaking in Hindi and these boneheads shouted him down for not speaking in Bhojpuri. So he left in mid address.

A parallel film industry has also opened up in all these dialects, especially in Bhojpuri but also in others. Many of these films often do a brisk business throughout UP, Bihar, but also in MP, Chhattisgadh, Jharkhand and parts of Bangal. Santhali and Maithili are two more important dialects in the same league.

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I have a hard time understanding them (as in Omkara) mostly because of the accent but also some of the words I have never heard before, like for example nool for innocent, bwood usually uses bekasoor, native word I know is nirdhosh, do you have any idea where nool comes from?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

If they speak slowly it is very easy to understand for any Sanskrit-leaning language speaker. But unfortunately some of these are spoken fast making it hard for the other to understand. The other thing is the conditioning to the words. Like in telugu we have lu, du, mu, vu in the end of the words, these dialects have also special sounds that are often appended to the root words. So once one gets an understanding of what will that sound be for each dialect, it becomes easy. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<b>nool</b>: I have not heard it used very frequently. But it comes from sanskrit 'Naval' meaning new, fresh, spot-less, therefore innocent. (usage Naval Chandra - new moon)