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- Title
Indigenous Language Abandonment in the Religious Domain in Murree: A Family Report Analysis.
- Authors
Abbasi, Muhammad Gulfraz; Khattak, Zafar Iqbal; Shah, Mujahid; Bin Saeed, Sayyam
- Abstract
The roots of any indigenous language lie in the heart of its respective culture. Expression of any sort becomes more fluent and powerful when it takes the route through indigenous language. However, the use of indigenous language is continuously decreasing in schools as well as in the family domain in Murree and the suburban Pahari speaking areas (Abbasi & Asif, 2010). The present study analyses the use of Pahari in the religious domain from the interviews data gathered mostly in the home domain. The religious domain which supposedly has conservative trends also seems to abandon Pahari on religious occasions giving way to Urdu on a massive level. It transpires from the findings of the present study that Pahari, if ever used on religious occasions, is presumed to lose the rhetorical vigor leading to less powerful linguistic impact.
- Subjects
PAHARI languages; NATIVE language; LANGUAGE &; religion; INDIGENOUS peoples; INTERVIEWING
- Publication
Language in India, 2011, Vol 11, Issue 3, p36
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article