Danial Shahbaz
Mr. Mayers
English 96
September 21, 2007
Communication
"Phir oose bataadoo ke your fine? Yaan oose bataaoo ke your sick? Theek hai, I will not say a thing."
One may take a look at the first couple of words and say to themselves, "what in the world is this?", but realizing it has English words, one can decipher what the sentence is proclaiming. The quote stated is an example of the hybrid language, Urduish, a combination of Urdu and English. The quote means, "Should I tell him your fine? Or should I tell him your sick? All right, I will not say a thing." Some people believe that the mixing of languages such as this, leads to the end of purification of a language. However, are languages not mixtures of other languages? Are they not derived from those languages? Thus, how can a language be given the status of pure, when truly it is not. Therefore, all the terms defining a genre of language, such as dialect, slang, colonial-language, or post-colonial language, and hybrid language are representations of mixed, language.
Today, hybrid languages are thought to be threats to the purity of any language. A hybrid language is the combination of two languages to form a means of communication. Probably the most common hybrid language in California today, is Spanglish, a combination of Spanish and English. Some linguists believe that hybrid languages are a threat because the amalgamation of a language leads to the end of the single language's purity, or even the extinction of the language itself. But by definition, what is a language? A "language is defined as an official body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the ...