Indian Scripts

Jnanpith (The seat of knowledge) is the highest literary award in India. And Kannada has won eight Jnanpith Awards so far, the recent one (2010) being conferred to Sri Chandrasekhar Kambara for his contributions to Kannada literature. Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa, (1904-1994) the versatile and prolific writer; was born at Hirekodige of Chikkamagaluru district; wrote all of his literary works using the pen name Kuvempu; he is considered and widely regarded as the greatest Kannada poet of...

Kannada is one of the oldest Dravidian languages and has an antiquity of not less than two thousand years. Kannada is one among the first 30 most spoken languages in the world; spoken mostly in the state of Karnataka, India and by more than 50 million speakers worldwide. Kannada belongs to the Southern Dravidian Language family, usually the history of Kannada language can be divided into three main periods as follows. 1) Halegannada: meaning Proto-Kannada period ranging between the 6 th and...

Gujarati is the official language of Gujarat state, on the west coast of India, with an area of 196,024 square kilometers. Within the Republic of India, Gujarat borders with Rajasthan, Madhyapradesh, and Maharashtra; it also borders with Pakistan to the northwest. Gujarati – A popular language of the world While the language of Gujarat is called Gujarati, the people of the State are also called by the same name – Gujaratis. As the native language of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the...

Punjab – How far yet so near! Punjab is situated in the northwestern corner of India. It is bounded on the north by the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, on the east by Himachal Pradesh and the union territory of Chandigarh. The majority of the population is Sikh, the largest minority is Hindu, and a very small percentage is Muslim, Buddhist, Christian. Punjab has an area of 19,445 square miles (50,362 square km) with a population of approx. 22,000,000 Punjab is 5.5 hours ahead of Greenwich...

Agreed, English is truly world wide in its distribution than all other spoken languages and it is an official language in 52 countries. In addition, 1/4 to 1/3 of the people in the world understand and speak English to some degree. It has become the most useful language to learn for international travel and is now the de facto language of diplomacy. Yet when you compare some of the Indian languages to English, did you know ? Read the rest of the articles here Filed under: Indian Languages

Some interesting facts about Urdu language In Pakistan, Urdu is spoken and understood by a majority of urban dwellers in such cities as Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Quetta, Hyderabad, Sialkot, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Multan and Sukkur. Urdu is used as the official language in all provinces of Pakistan. It is also taught as a compulsory language up to high school in both the English and Urdu medium school systems. This has produced millions of Urdu speakers whose mother...

Bengali, also called Bangla, is the official language of Bangladesh, and the Indian States of West Bengal and Tripura. There are over 200 million native speakers of this language across the world and it has the pride of place as the 5 th “most spoken” language in the world (after Mandarin, Spanish, English and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu). Bengali is the second most commonly spoken language in India (after Hindi). Yet, interestingly, there are crucial differences between the spoken and written...

Considered by many scholars a language as romantic and subtle as French, Bangla is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language that found roots in the Indo-European language family way back in the 500 BC. According to some, the language saw the daylights in the South Asian regions as the truest successor of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit, inheriting bits and pieces (well, chunks, if you demand) from all the three since 1000 CE, though counter opinions are galore. The contradictions state that Bangla took form...

Forming the foundation of many present-day languages of India, Sanskrit is the oldest language of this country. Even languages like Hindi and Urdu owe its origin to Sanskrit. The earliest form of Sanskrit, known as Vedic, was the language of communication of the Aryans. By 100 B.C., Sanskrit had died, but much like Latin in the West, it remained the language of choice for poetry and drama in the royal courts. Sanskrit was also the foundation of many scientific, philosophical and religious...

By now, we have come to know the ancestry of the language Bangla along with a few other brief details regarding its transformations and classifications; but to develop an overall idea, it’s necessary to know it’s most recent form. That directs to the spoken form; though spoken Bangla shares a common ground with the archaic structure up to a certain extent, it can be easily noticed that there also exists a certain dissimilarity that differentiates between the two. However, a little recap may...

Most businesses’ traditional boundaries and marketplace definitions are being made irrelevant and getting redefined by globalization. Such concepts as borders are becoming archaic, with the integration of economies to a global scale, both geographically as well as market segments. While the rest of the world outside of English-speaking countries are coming online faster than we can think, what is the state of affairs, and how does that impact our businesses in India? How seriously do we take...

Internet is fast becoming the basic and fundamental source and dissemination of information, purchases of goods and services worldwide. In addition, those computer and Internet users are increasingly from non-English speaking countries. This figure is constantly rising. In response, businesses have quickly become aware of the benefits of making their websites relevant to the native languages of the target audience. Read more...