http://www.englishforums.com/English/CulturalAnecdotesSimilarities-Differences/Forum19.htmAll topics related to cultural interaction. Please register if you wish to post here.enXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)http://www.englishforums.com/English/OneLanguageTwoScripts/bbnbv/post.htm#122156Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:44:03 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:122156Anonymous0http://www.englishforums.com/English/OneLanguageTwoScripts/bbnbv/post.htm#122156http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-122156.xmlI see two problems: petty politics, and statistics. I also see one solution: entertainment. The authorities want to force e.g. Hindi and Urdu apart. Also, random mutations cause divergence - this is why French, Spanish, Italian etc. diverged from Latin. So, human languages multiply. However, taking Hindi-Urdu, entertainment is keeping the common core of the language alive e.g. through Bollywood, and the Internet. The language of Bollywood, and the 'Roman' Hindi-Urdu of the Internet are nurturing a common written, spoken and living heritage :-) Although I'm learning both the scripts, otherwise, this is the Hindi-Urdu which I want to soak up :-)http://www.englishforums.com/English/OneLanguageTwoScripts/bbnbv/post.htmSun, 26 Apr 2009 18:44:03 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:92212elviajero1http://www.englishforums.com/English/OneLanguageTwoScripts/bbnbv/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-92212.xmlI have always wondered at the fact that people around the world like to distinguish themselves from other groups although they have so much in common between them and in some cases, even speak the same language! Yes, I'm talking about the variants of the same language which for mostly political and religious reasons have different writing systems and artificially derived lexicon, rendering it mutually unintelligible to its speakers. I know of a few Indian (and Pakistani) languages that fall in this category: Hindi and Urdu written in Devanagari and Nastaliq scripts respectively; Punjabi written in Gurumukhi and Shahmukhi scripts; and, Sindhi written in Devanagari and Arabic-derived scripts. There could be many more, it could be that...