Wednesday, October 19, 2011

TALKING IN INDIAN

In China, people speak Chinese. In Japan, they speak Japanese. In France, it is French. Most countries have only one language.

In India, each state has a different language. Even within a state there are regional differences in the spoken language.

When I was in Africa, I used to go to a church where people of different nationalities gathered for prayer. After the service, there was a get together for Tea and snacks. One day there were a few people from Kerala and we started talking in Malayalam. An American lady looked at us for some time and said “All the Indians are talking in Indian.” I realized then, most people do not know, there are so many languages in India and that some even think Indians speak in a language called Indian.

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