The Punjabi Movement in Pakistan

• Autores: Tariq Rahman
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 122, 1996, págs. 73-88
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Punjabi language movement is the aspiration ofcertain Punjabi intellectuals to increase the use of the Punjabi language in the domains ofpower in place of Urdu and English. It is an urban phenomenon which started soon after the emergence of Pakistan but has never become either populist or powerful. The activists of the movement have, however, created some modern terminology in Punjabi and they publish some Journals and books.

    The movement is a reaction of intellectuals who feel that the Punjabi eilte dominates the country by using the integrative Symbols of Islam and Urdu, which is the national language of the country despite being the mother tongue ofabout 8 percent people, whereas Punjabi is the mother tongue of more than 48 percent people. They feel that the neglect of their mother tongue is too great a price to pay for suppressing language-based ethnic movements in the other provinces of Pakistan andhence retaining hegemony over the whole country.