UNSPECIFIED
(2013)
Face to Face with Navnit Kumar.
Language and Language Teaching, 2 (1).
ISSN 2277-307X
Abstract
NK: At school level, the medium of teaching
was Hindi. In my class, most of the students
used to speak Hindi (standardized Khari Boli)
at home, but some spoke Maithili, Bhojpuri,
Bangla or Magahi (a variety of Hindi) at home.
The vocabulary of these languages is similar to
that of Hindi with minor variations. In fact, Hindi
has more than eighteen related varieties. So,
Hindi was the medium of instruction, but at times
one could see the influence of native languages
on the Hindi used in class. For example, Hindi
verb forms vary with gender, but in Magahi,
the verb forms are gender neutral.
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