Tamilnadu govt.avoiding Hindi in tn.?
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is this is a question stupid \n\nyou are vomiting u r views on yahoo answers.
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NO aot at all , HINDI is and it will be the national language in INDIA ...............  according to me it is the best of all .
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Tamil (தமிழ்) is a classical language and one of the major languages of the Dravidian language family. Spoken predominantly by Tamils in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore, it has smaller communities of speakers in many other countries. As of 1996, it was the eighteenth most spoken language, with over 74 million speakers worldwide. It is one of the official languages of India, Singapore and Sri Lanka.\n\nTamil is one of the few living classical languages and has an unbroken literary tradition of over two millennia. The high level of diglossia exhibited by Tamil, and the prestige accorded to classical Tamil, have resulted in much of the vocabulary and forms of classical Tamil being preserved in modern literary Tamil, such that the higher registers of literary Tamil tend towards the classical language. The classical language also forms an important part of Tamil-medium education: verses from the Tirukkural, a classical work, are, for example, taught in primary school. The ordinary form of the modern language used in speech and writing, in contrast, has undergone significant changes, to the extent that a person who has not learnt the higher literary form will have difficulty understanding it.\n\nThe name 'Tamil' is an anglicised form of the native name தமிழ். The final letter of the name, usually transcribed as the lowercase l or zh, is a retroflex r. In phonetic transcriptions, it is usually represented by the retroflex approximant.\n\nThe origins of Tamil, like the other Dravidian languages are unknown, but unlike most of the other established literary languages of India, are independent of Sanskrit. Tamil has the oldest literature amongst the Dravidian languages (Hart, 1975), but dating the language and the literature precisely is difficult. Literary works in India or Sri Lanka were preserved either in palm leaf manuscripts (implying repeated copying and recopying) or through oral transmission, making direct dating impossible. External chronological records and internal linguistic evidence, however, indicate that the oldest extant works were probably composed sometime in the 2nd century CE.\n\nThe earliest extant text in Tamil is the Tolkāppiyam, a work on poetics and grammar which describes the language of the classical period, the oldest portions of this book may date back to around 200 BCE (Hart, 1975). Apart from these, the earliest examples of Tamil writing we have today are rock inscriptions from the 3rd century BCE, which are written in Tamil-Brahmi, an adapted form of the Brahmi script (Mahadevan, 2003). Linguists categorise Tamil literature and language into three periods: ancient (500 BCE to 700 CE), medieval (700 CE to 1500 CE) and modern (1500 CE to the present). During the medieval period, a number of Sanskrit loan words were absorbed by Tamil, which many 20th century purists, notably Parithimaar Kalaignar and Maraimalai Adigal, later sought to remove. This movement was called thanith thamizh iyakkam (meaning pure Tamil movement). As a result of this, Tamil in formal documents, public speeches and scientific discourses is largely free of Sanskrit loan words.\n\nTamil is the first language of the majority in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and in northern, eastern and northeastern Sri Lanka. The language is also spoken by small groups of minorities in other parts of these two countries, most notably in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra, and in Colombo and the hill country in Sri Lanka.\n\nThere are currently sizeable Tamil-speaking populations descended from them in Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, and Mauritius. Many people in Guyana, Fiji, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago have Tamil origins, but the language is spoken only by a small number there-.
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Seek help from somebody who knows. Conversing in Tamil constantly increases your retention power. Or just join your local language teaching institute for a fee. They do a pretty good job and you'll learn it "instantly". Just for the record, thats not exacty possible. Good luck anyway!
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OMG...my mom is sindhi, but i can speak and understand it!!!\nyay...wooohooo, i also know hindi and punjabi...\nhindi is a bit easier for me...\nsnickerbug0484@yahoo.com\nyea, we should talk...yay
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English......\nbut that may be because I don't know a word of Tamil...
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Forget about Hindi. First learn how to speak English properly.
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are you swearing in hindi?
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That would be no:\n\nhttp://www.ncvc.org/src/main.aspx?dbID=DB_Tennessee571
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It is a local language.It is not the l;anguage of most people of the states which say it is theirs because those people have other languages but are afraid of the Hindi bullies and so falsely state their language as Hindi in the Census.Many of them migrated to Fiji, nothern part of S.America,U.K., USA., etc. where they speak it. Hindi is misused by its native users to bully & cheat others to get jobs & privileges and deprive others. It is not a national language but with English was made an Offical Language. Now, its users do not want English and want others to learn Hindi and asked the U.N. to make it a U.N. language out of sheer ego & hate for others. Sanskrit is not the origin of Tamil. It is not easy to learn Hindi or Sanskrit both of which have cranky grammars. The Govt of India & of some states  made it compulsory for all so tht Hindi speakers an get jobs and othes can be jobless in their own states.It is a new language made from Urdu or Hindustaani & other derivaives of Sanskrit & local dialects of the north India. There are much older other languages such as Tamil which is not derived from Sanskrit .
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If you are using Windows XP you don’t need Hindi fonts. Just go to \nControl panel > Reginald and language option > Languages> Supplemental language support>\nSelect here> Install files complex script and right to left languages (including Thai)\nNow click on details on the same language tab and select Hindi. \n\nYou can type Hindi by selecting on screen keyboard from Accessories>accessibility. \n\nFor detail you may find important links here\n\nhttp://pratibhaas.blogspot.com/2005/07/links-to-hindi-resources-on-web.html\n\nAlso you can visit to my blog from my profile.
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Why should they be familiar with it? it is neither local language of Kerala nor national language. this language is a north Indian one.
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1. There are two websites that claim 23 official languages, being Hindi (which is the official language of the Union, and also an officially recognised regional language), 21 other regional languages, and English (used for official purposes). Here they are in alphabetical order.\n\n1. Assamese \n2. Bengali \n3. Bodo \n4. Dogri \n5. English\n6. Gujarati \n7. Hindi \n8. Kannada \n9. Kashmiri \n10. Konkani \n11. Maithili \n12. Malayalam \n13. Manipuri \n14. Marathi \n15. Nepali \n16. Oriya \n17. Punjabi \n18. Sanskrit \n19. Santhali \n20. Sindhi \n21. Tamil \n22. Telugu \n23. Urdu \n\nhttp://indiaimage.nic.in/languages.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_languages_of_India\n\n2. In support of the basis of your question, there are many websites that claim that the Constitution recognises 18 official Indian languages, excluding English (rather than 22). Bizarrely this also includes another page on the Wikipedia site (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India )! However, they then list less than 18, so it is not possible to identify the four additional languages in 1. above. \n\na) This website (http://www.rbcradio.com/knowlanguages.html ) lists 16 languages (including Hindi, but excluding English):\n1. Assamese\n2. Bengali\n3. Gujarati\n4. Hindi\n6. Kashmiri\n7. Konkani\n8. Malayalam\n9. Marathi\n10. Oriya\n11. Punjabi\n12. Sanskrit\n13. Sindhi\n14. Tamil\n15. Telugu\n16. Urdu\n\nb). This website (http://www.indiasite.com/language/hindi.html ) lists 15 languages (the above list minus Konkani).\n\nc) This website (http://www.indiabook.com/india-information/official-language.html ) also lists 15 languages (the above list minus Sanskrit).\n\n3. If your question is for a quiz or similar, then I haven't been able to find a definitive list of 18. However, if it is for school homework, I'd go with the list of 23 languages.
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It depends on their computer. If they don't have Windows XP or another recent computer system, they may not have Unicode installed, and you need Unicode to use Devanagari and all other non-English scripts. See if they have Mangal set up properly - try e-mailing them the script in a Word document and seeing if they can read it. If they can, the problem is in their browser (assuming you can e-mail Devanagari text to yourself.)\n\nBut why bother typing in Devanagari? Just type it in English letters - it's quicker to type, and you're more sure that you can read it.
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Are you using a MAC, or are you using a BSD or Linux or UNIX distribution, or are you using Windows?\n\nWhat language is your operating system localized for?  If not Hindi, then you may need to download and install Hindi support, perhaps a full Unicode font or at least a font containing the Hindi subset of Unicode, and a Hindi input editor.  With those I think even notepad on recent enough Windows - English versions can be used.  Save using the utf8 text format, specify the charset in your HTML:\n\n<head>\n<!-- other stuff -->\n<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />\n<!-- other stuff -->\n</head>\n\nand try to tell the server to use that charset when serving the pages.
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Stop using ORKUT.\nORKUT is defaming our VEER SHIVAJI.\nRespect indians and respect india !
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First of all Hindi is not our (India's) single national language. There exists no such thing in our constitution. Languages in our constitution is devided into two categories. Namely Official languages (Central administrative)& Scheduled list of languages for official use.\n\nOfficial languages are Hindi and English\n\nAnother 22 regional languages for official use.\n\nOnly around 40% of Indians speak Hindi as mother tounge but nearly 70% can understand Hindi. And that's hardly a criteria for "Naional Language".