Bollywood: History, Language and Gender: Relevant Languages
Bollywood: History, Language and Gender: Relevant Languages
Bollywood: History, Language and Gender: Relevant Languages
Relevant Languages
Urdu (most formal)/Hindi (normal) Punjabi (more informal) English (cool)
History: Urdu/Hindi
The name Urdu or Oordoo originally meant camp, short for zaban-i-urdu language of the camp. The word Urdu comes from Turkish ordu, which is related to Horde.
Oxford English Dictionary
Timurlane Babur
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Urdu/Hindi
Urdu
Spoken by: Spoken in: Differences: mainly Muslims Pakistan and India
Urdu/Hindi
Hindi
mainly Hindus India 1872 Beames Comp. Gram. Aryan Lang. I. 39: By a curious caprice, Hindi, when it uses Arabic words, is assumed to become a new language, and is called by a new name Urdu.
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Dialects of the same language Urdu (vocabulary) is the declared/historic language of poetry/love, hence important for Bollywood.
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no /f/ (philem), /x/ (khuda)
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Urdu/Hindi
Example: Riddles/Poets by Amir Khusro (1253-1325). Hindi Urdu
You prepared the kheer (rice pudding) with much hard work and lit up the lamp. The dog came and ate it all, nothing for you now than to sit and play the drum.
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Language
Basic Primer on Urdu/Hindi (see extra sheet) 1. Words for Love/Heart 2. Religion (Deities/Greetings) 3. Significance of Names (Religion/Tribes/Caste) 4. Basic Sentence Structure (Topic/Focus) 5. 6. 7. 8. Pronouns Case Verbs (Gender, etc.) Basic Vocabulary
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Code-Switching
A lot of code-switching goes on all the time 1. Between dialects/languages 2. Main one that is easy to notice is English/Hindi Question: who does it and why? Gender differences? For general linguistic background on Code-switching, see Susanne Romaines book Bilingualism.
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Movie Clips
K3G: 2nd Scene, Codeswichting K3G: Rich boy meets poor girl (use of Punjabi) Kahoo Na Pyaar Hai: Urdu Sickness Kahoo Na Pyaar Hai: Hindi dialect
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