Asian Religions And Languages

Asians are very religious people especially those from the Southern part of Asia. These people have a limitless number of gods and beliefs depending on what region they hail from.

This is mainly in the Southern part of Asia, but India beats all other Asian countries when it comes to religious beliefs and it is also estimated that all religions followed in Asia hail from India.

Religions hailing from India are;

• Hinduism
• Buddhism
• Jainism
• Sikhism

It should also be noted that most Asian religious activities and ceremonies are most of the time carried out in their original languages, may be to retain the importance therein. Therefore, in one way or another one learns a language foreign to them because of religion.

This is an advantage in the sense that one may travel to a foreign country or encounter a person where by the only way for effective communication is through that language that the former got through religion.

For example, the Sikhism religion is mainly practiced by the Punjab in India and Pakistan who speak the Punjabi language.

Advantage of languages spread by religion

This fosters unity in a way. When people belonging to the same religion are further bound by religion, it gives them a sense of belonging and pride. This in one way or another fosters development as believers speaking one tongue try to be recognized as a developmental group.

Religions that have a common language foster peace generally. This is because most of the religions preach peace and love for everyone. In fact some Asian religions go further and emphasize peace for all living creatures too. For example, Buddhism believes that all humans and animals alike fear pain and mistreatment and therefore calls upon its followers to be as kind to animals as to humans.

The other reason for this is because Buddhism believes that human souls either return as humans or as animals. The latter happens if one was evil in their previous life as a human, therefore mistreatment of an animal might be mistreatment of a human.

How to effectively communicate Asian languages

Since ore people around the globe are adapting to Southern Asian religions, translations of the reading materials and all literature with information about these religions should be done in as many foreign languages as possible.

Translation enables effective communication because the reader is doing so in the language thy understand most.

By Angela Kyolaba

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