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More than 1,000 pro-Cantonese protestors rallied in Guangzhou and Hong Kong, and scuffled with the police in a protest to support the local dialect.
Protestors were opposing Government's plans to switch much programming on local television to the national language Mandarin. Protestors were claiming that the planned move would wipe out the Cantonese language and culture.
With David Cameron’s visit to India in the news, our attention at Collins Language is drawn to the linguistic variety of the subcontinent. By a conservative count, India has 415 languages. English is one of them. After the United States, India has more English speakers than any other country – more than 90 million of them – who generally use it as a second or even third language. To them may be added many millions in Bangladesh and Pakistan, as well as millions more in other countries.
The British were on the subcontinent from the seventeenth century onward as traders, colonizers, missionaries, soldiers, and administrators, culminating in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Imperial Raj (reign). Even after independence in 1947, the use of English did not decline. more >RSS feed
