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Gurbani (660-685)
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Gurbani (696-703)
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Gurbani (721-727)
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Thitteen (838-840)
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Chhant (843-848)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
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Gurbani (984-988)
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Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
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Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
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Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
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Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
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Gurbani (1294-96)
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Devanagari As A Writing System For Punjabi: Plus Or Minus For Punjabi?
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<blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 188647" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>angrisha ji</p><p></p><p>You are right. Many of the issues that are connected with language loss are inevitable. However, the impact on any particular language differs and the problem is complex. </p><p></p><p>Commercial influences, media distortion, the amalgamation of Devanagri script with Punjabi --- that is going to happen because we live in modern times and languages have always changed in response to contact with other languages and economic and social pressure. No question.</p><p></p><p>Punjabi in India, like languages over history, has changed and will change. Will the language remain vital? One factor working against the continued vitality of Punjabi is national language policy. As I mentioned earlier Cantonese has been preserved only outside of China. Punjabi seems to have a bright future - in parts of the diaspora. The Punjabi Language Movement is a Pakistan-based initiative. </p><p></p><p>Drs. Joda Singh, Sikhandar Singh and Paramjeet Singh were examining the problem within India. What were they railing against? They know as well as any that Punjabi is under pressure from inevitables. The impact of national language policies however worsens the effect. National language policies and educational reforms that can be shown to be biased against Punjabi (please check the complete article) are "sinister" to borrow from the thread title. </p><p></p><p>I don't think they are taking a radical stand because the same pattern of language suppression has occurred at the hands of national policy in other nations and at other times. Here are just two of many possible examples. The systematic loss of native american languages in the United States happened in less than one century by government fiat under a policy of cultural assimilation. Mussolini attempted to eradicate Italian dialect in the name of national identity by destroying cultural identities, burning entire libraries of dialect-based grammars, poetry, fiction and theater throughout the Italian peninsula and Sicily, by posting spies and imprisonment.</p><p></p><p>The good professors know, because the study of language is their expertise, that concerted will, and organized opposition to policies that are proposed in the name of national identity, is a defense against all of that. In Italy virtually no dialects are spoken today in their original form, because of television, except in Sicily where no one calls it a dialect. They call it the Sicilian language because there is enough cultural will to preserve it and to insist that it is in fact a language, their language. If you read through the PLM manifesto (posted by Gyani ji) you will see that the PLM strategy is all about finding the cultural will to sustain cultural identity; and the PLM is fighting to preserve the cultural identities of speakers of other languages too. Sometimes national policy has to be tackled politically, sometimes in courts of law. Two significant Supreme Court decisions in the mid 20th Century asserted the right of Native Americans to have tribal schools. For the Navajo, who have both the Navajo language and a Dineh script, an entire legacy of cultural tradition, spiritual belief and folk lore can now be transmitted from elders to the young, through schooling, in the mother tongue. The Navajo btw refuse to downplay the importance of the script in teaching and learning their language, in spite of transliterations for the benefit of whiteys like me. The same cannot be said for most other tribal peoples of North America. Court decisions alone could not re-school tribal cultures where languages that had already been lost. Because educational policies and the law eventually did respect the integrity of their cultural text, there was a different outcome for the Navajo</p><p></p><p>Devanagari script seems like such an odd start for a thread, seeming so narrow in scope. Uncovered are much broader problems. Languages change for many reasons that are inevitable. One lesson might be not to take the inevitables lightly; another might be to find the will to take a stand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 188647, member: 35"] angrisha ji You are right. Many of the issues that are connected with language loss are inevitable. However, the impact on any particular language differs and the problem is complex. Commercial influences, media distortion, the amalgamation of Devanagri script with Punjabi --- that is going to happen because we live in modern times and languages have always changed in response to contact with other languages and economic and social pressure. No question. Punjabi in India, like languages over history, has changed and will change. Will the language remain vital? One factor working against the continued vitality of Punjabi is national language policy. As I mentioned earlier Cantonese has been preserved only outside of China. Punjabi seems to have a bright future - in parts of the diaspora. The Punjabi Language Movement is a Pakistan-based initiative. Drs. Joda Singh, Sikhandar Singh and Paramjeet Singh were examining the problem within India. What were they railing against? They know as well as any that Punjabi is under pressure from inevitables. The impact of national language policies however worsens the effect. National language policies and educational reforms that can be shown to be biased against Punjabi (please check the complete article) are "sinister" to borrow from the thread title. I don't think they are taking a radical stand because the same pattern of language suppression has occurred at the hands of national policy in other nations and at other times. Here are just two of many possible examples. The systematic loss of native american languages in the United States happened in less than one century by government fiat under a policy of cultural assimilation. Mussolini attempted to eradicate Italian dialect in the name of national identity by destroying cultural identities, burning entire libraries of dialect-based grammars, poetry, fiction and theater throughout the Italian peninsula and Sicily, by posting spies and imprisonment. The good professors know, because the study of language is their expertise, that concerted will, and organized opposition to policies that are proposed in the name of national identity, is a defense against all of that. In Italy virtually no dialects are spoken today in their original form, because of television, except in Sicily where no one calls it a dialect. They call it the Sicilian language because there is enough cultural will to preserve it and to insist that it is in fact a language, their language. If you read through the PLM manifesto (posted by Gyani ji) you will see that the PLM strategy is all about finding the cultural will to sustain cultural identity; and the PLM is fighting to preserve the cultural identities of speakers of other languages too. Sometimes national policy has to be tackled politically, sometimes in courts of law. Two significant Supreme Court decisions in the mid 20th Century asserted the right of Native Americans to have tribal schools. For the Navajo, who have both the Navajo language and a Dineh script, an entire legacy of cultural tradition, spiritual belief and folk lore can now be transmitted from elders to the young, through schooling, in the mother tongue. The Navajo btw refuse to downplay the importance of the script in teaching and learning their language, in spite of transliterations for the benefit of whiteys like me. The same cannot be said for most other tribal peoples of North America. Court decisions alone could not re-school tribal cultures where languages that had already been lost. Because educational policies and the law eventually did respect the integrity of their cultural text, there was a different outcome for the Navajo Devanagari script seems like such an odd start for a thread, seeming so narrow in scope. Uncovered are much broader problems. Languages change for many reasons that are inevitable. One lesson might be not to take the inevitables lightly; another might be to find the will to take a stand. [/QUOTE]
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