HYDERABADI Tamilian ???

Okay...this post is going to be partly in english and partly in our very own hyderabadi hindi because....well, you'll know the reason at the end of the post ;)

Long long ago in 1989, I was born in this very city...after a couple of years I learned that meri ammi jaan ka jeeb[ mother tongue :D] tamil hai and I ought to speak in it...

Ischool ko gaye toh poore logaan hindi mein ich baat kare...main bhi wohich kiya..mereko telugu bhi nahin aata toh hindi se ich kaam chalaya...my best friend at school[from U.K.G] was a telugu...phir bhi hindi mein ich baat kare humlogan...mereko farak nahin pada..ischool mein ich mera hindi- hyderabadi hindi mein transforming hogaya...log became logaan....whatever became kya toh bhi...dude became chicha and so on...Abhi dekhe toh mereko tamil ich theek se nahin aara baat karne ko....logaan bole..arri..kaisa haula hai bey tu...mother tongue ich nahin aata tereko...main bola..dekho yaaron..tamil main ghar pe baat kartun...bahaar aaye toh myself pucca hyderabadi...biryani khaatun..hyderabadi baat kartun...kaun kya ukhadta??...

For me its really strange with languages...my [tamilian]friends don't consider me as a tamilian for I don't speak it often...infact, I'd almost feel left out in a tamilan convo that takes place occasionally with friends...

There is another catch as well, I can very well say that I've been in this city since I was born, so that makes it almost 20 full years and yet I still can't talk the local language, telugu!...

I can understand it pretty well, but talking is just not the thing I could do...it kinda makes me conscious...par apna hyderabadi mein baat karne ko bole toh..kiraaaak baat kartun...

I could probably claim I've mastered this awesome sounding language...the one that gives hindi a hydie touch...

Around 5-6 years ago, I remember I had normal or shudh hindi conversation with a cousin of mine who spoke more in Hindi than in tamil to me...After a couple of years of getting the hang of hydie hindi or lets say after diving head first into hydie hindi, I can no longer converse with him in hindi...A couple of words in the shudh version of the language and I'll get derailed into hydie form of it...kuch nahin kar sakte yaaron...aadat hogaya mereko...

People say it sounds a little cheap sometimes..but I beg to differ...its just another form of hindi...a localized one and I'm proud of the fact that I've majored in it :D

I'll say I'm a tamilian by tongue and a hydie by the heart :) ...

Kuch bhi bolo yaaron, hydie hindi ich aakhri kiraak language hai aur mein isme ich baat kartun...

To the ones who don't appreciate the language and the people who speak it, [Like I've said before] Lite lo yaaron, hum aise ich hain!..

Cheers!