Sindhi language wants justice..........!!!
(younis bhatti, mehrabpur)
Sindhi is a language spoken in
all over the world. In Pakistan it is spoken by 37 million people. before the
partition of 1947, Sindhi was used as an official language by the British
empires. Sir Bartle Frere, Commissioner in Sinsh (1851) issued an order and made
the study of sindhi language compulsory for the british officers. British
scholars like Dr. Earnest trumpp and Captain stack worked on the sindhi language
and came up with many books, dictionaries and other literature in sindhi. Sindhi
is spoken in various regions of Pakistan. there are six dialects of sindhi
language. Siroli, vicholi, lari, thareli, lasi, kachi. very recently, sindhi
adbi sangat gave a demand draft to the government of Pakistan, in which it was
stated that: why sindhi language be declared as a national language of Pakistan.
the experts of linguistic science are of view that a language may be declared a
national lnaguage on the following principles.(a) it is being used by the people
in their daily life for all the purposes of the society.(b) which is being
spoken by a nation through out its generation from the time immorial.(c) which
is being used as official and court language and also as a medium of
institutions from primary upto the higher education.(d) which is being used for
its literary and media communication.(e) which is an exponent of the various
feelings of a nation.(f) which is able to borrow and use the words and phrases
from any other developed language of the world and can transform that stock of
words according to its own grammatical structure.(g) which is originated from
the language of the soil of that nation.(h) the speakers of that language feel
proud of presenting it as their national language. According to the Lahore
resolution of Pakistan of 23rd march 1940, "Pakistan is a federation of various
provinces where different languages and cultures are spoken and followed
respectively. it is an accepted fact that Pakistan is not a monoculture,
monolingual and mononational country. In Pakistan there has been a bitter
controversy about the national language of the country, infect this controversy
was so lethal for Pakistan that it saw a horrendous massacre in east Pakistan
that ultimately resulted in the separation of east Pakistan (Bangladesh).
According to BUREAU OF STATISTICS GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN YEAR BOOK P-24 "Urdu is
a mother language only of 7.57% of total population of country, yet it is
declared as a national language of Pakistan. Besides all above facts it is
submitted that sindhi is most ancient and most developed language of the world.
sindhi is as old as the man is himself. it is humble request from sindhi nation
to the united nations, linguistic authorities, government of Pakistan to declare
sindhi as a national language of sindh province, to deny this status to sindhi
language would be tantamount to repeating the past mistake of ignoring the
bengali language and loosing the province altogether.