Posted on 09/07/2023 2:27:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Does that mean that the Cleveland Indians can take their name back?
A brutal thought just entered my mind. If they change the name will the American Indians now be called American Brats?
Yes, the names just roll off the tongue!
List of languages by number of native speakers
Ordered by number of speakers as first language.
More than one million speakers
The 2011 census recorded 31 individual languages as having more than 1 million native speakers (0.1% of total population). The languages in bold are scheduled languages (the only scheduled language with less than 1 million native speakers is Sanskrit). The first table is restricted to only speaking populations for scheduled languages.
First language speakers
Second language
speakers[12]
Third language
speakers[12]
Total speakers
Language
Figure[12]
% of total
population
Figure[13][12]
% of total
population
Hindi [note 2]
528,347,193
43.63%
139,207,180
24,160,696
691,347,193
57.09%
Bengali
97,237,669
8.03%
9,037,222
1,008,088
107,237,669
8.85%
Telugu
81,127,740
6.70%
11,946,414
1,001,498
94,127,740
7.77%
Marathi
83,026,680
6.86%
12,923,626
2,966,019
99,026,680
8.18%
Tamil
69,026,881
5.70%
6,992,253
956,335
77,026,881
6.36%
Gujarati
55,492,554
4.58%
4,035,489
1,007,912
60,492,554
4.99%
Urdu [note 3]
50,772,631
4.19%
11,055,287
1,096,428
62,772,631
5.18%
Kannada
43,706,512
3.61%
14,076,355
993,989
58,706,512
4.84%
Odia
37,521,324
3.10%
4,972,151
31,525
42,551,324
3.51%
Malayalam
34,838,819
2.88%
499,188
195,885
35,538,819
2.93%
Punjabi
33,124,726
2.74%
2,300,000
720,000
36,074,726
2.97%
Assamese
15,311,351
1.26%
7,488,153
740,402
23,539,906
1.94%
English
259,678
0.02%
83,125,221
45,993,066
129,259,678
10.67%
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers_in_India
Sounds like a Hindu fart.
If enough Indians want a change, I don’t see why not.
Sri Lanka used to be Ceylon, Zimbabwe used to be Rhodesia and Myanmar used to be Burma.
Heck, Indian cities have changed their names too. Mumbai used to be Bombay and Chennai used to be Madras. Kolkata was Calcutta, etc.
The irony is that if the British had not built the Raj, India would not be a country, but a subcontinent of many countries. They stitched it together and it ultimately only split into 3 parts as opposed to dozens.
Or the Stanford Indians?
Why should I give a Hindi or a Shi’ite about what other want to call their country?
They've been using the two names for a long time. It's up there in the corner.
There may be a conflict between two kinds of national pride. One is wanting to go with the Hindi name and make the rest of the world use it and drop the foreign name. But "India" is known all around the world. "Bharat" doesn't have the same resonance. Burma could become Myanmar, because not that many people were familiar with the country. If India changes its name something would be lost.
There are more people in Kannada than in Canada.
Wonder how many bar rats there are in Bharat.
One thing we can say about the President of Bharat is that Murmu will never wear a mumu; most of the time she will be a sari sight.
India is a poophole country. Why couldn’t the Brits had done to Hinduism what the Spanish and French Catholics did to the pagan faiths of the Amerindians.
I would disagree: not only was Burma one of the main battlefields in the Pacific War, but every road had a Burma Shave sign as late as the 1960s.
You like to play with words and you’re not changing, chajin.
There IS no change. Article 1 of the Indian constitution says, "India, that is Bharat..." and the official Hindi versions starts with-translated- "Bharat, that is India...."
All the Govt is doing is giving primacy to the Sanskrit word over the English (Latin?) word.
The word "India" cannot be banned without changing the constitution. However, govt communications can change the primacy of one of the names.
RE: All the Govt is doing is giving primacy to the Sanskrit word
If that is the case, then what will be the official name used in daily international transactions from now on?
Will the United Nations use the Sanskrit name? Will the Olympic Games, International meetings, newspaper references, etc. use the Sanskrit name?
the ruling Conservative and Nationalist party has Bharat in its name. The elitist corrupt opposition party uses "Indian" in it's name.Just saying..
That charted when I was a kiddo..
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