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India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri last week was at the center of a linguistic whirlwind. The storm began to blow when a parliamentary decree was enacted making Hindi the nation's official language. What bothered millions of non-Hindi-speaking Indians was the fear that they would lose out to the Hindi speakers in government jobs and promotions...
Monday, February 15 THE DINAH SHORE SPECIAL (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Dinah and Harry Belafonte salute the Peace Corps in a program featuring songs in Swahili, Hindi and Tagalog...
...dissenting southerners have a point. Indians speak 14 major tongues and 831 dialects; the only truly common language among educated Indians is English. Hindi script is an almost insurmountable obstacle for southern Indians; it is made up of a series of curves, lines, and floating vowels, arranged above a horizontal line, as against the intricate, graceful loops and curves of Tamil. For instance, the words "India and America" are written thus in Hindi...
...Hindi is also different from Tamil in its syntax. The start of St. Luke's parable of the prodigal son ("A certain man had two sons") becomes in Hindi "One man did two sons have," and in Tamil "For one man two sons were." South Indian languages have a neuter gender as well as masculine and feminine; in the north, there are only masculine and feminine. "Water," for example, is neuter in Tamil, feminine in Hindi...
Associate Language. Hewing to the letter of the new law, Indian officials last week wrestled with the problem of communicating in Hindi. In some areas they wrote most of their correspondence in English - retained as an "associate language" - but inserted verbs in Hindi. In Uttar Pradesh, a Hindi state, government offices faced a correspondence backlog for lack of enough typewriters equipped with the cumbersome 36-character Hindi alphabet...