Modernization, Cultural Integration and Language Modification: A Study of the Potohari Language in Pakistan

Shakeela Ibrahim and Sajid Mahmood Awan
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Shakeela Ibrahim: PhD Scholar,Department of Taxila Institute of Asian Civilization, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Sajid Mahmood Awan: Acting Director, National Institute of Historical and Cultural research.QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Global Regional Review, 2020, vol. 5, issue 1, 128-135

Abstract: This paper identifies the connection between cultural integration and language modification in Pakistan, with a focus on the Potohari region of northern Punjab. The study has primarily been conducted in the Potohar region, consisting of the three districts of Rawalpindi, Chakwal, and Gujarkhan. The respondents were selected mainly from innate Potohari families to determine and identify the changes in native language. The results indicated that the native language of Potohari has been replaced by the Urdu and English in the present generation. Younger people feel comfortable speaking these languages at their household level. The conservation of an aboriginal language is important before its liquidation. This paper highlighted the pace and extent of the replacement of the native language of Potohari with the national and international language of Urdu and English as a symbol of modernization, and its implications for the cultural integration of society. The Data was collected through formal interviews, group discussion and a survey.

Keywords: Modernization; Cultural Integration; Language; Potohar; Pakistan. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.31703/grr.2020(V-I).16

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