A Study on Transnational Network of Urdu Media by the South Asia Muslims

该项目旨在研究南亚穆斯林的乌尔都语媒体跨国网络。乌尔都语一直是南亚穆斯林的通用弗兰卡语言，而那些移民到世界各地并建立自己社区的穆斯林则使用乌尔都语进行交流。这就是为什么这些社区的许多报纸、期刊、杂志和书籍都是用乌尔都语印刷和出版的。为了方便起见，这些社区也有英语媒体，特别是在互联网上，但这些英语媒体也提供有关南亚的信息，甚至是乌尔都语的文学活动。在低成本的网络媒体时代，南亚人在以乌尔都语和英语为主的移民中建立了独特的媒体网络。乌尔都语被认为是世界上第三大语言，但由于其字母，语法和文学遗产与众不同，这种语言的使用者一直将这种语言作为民族媒体使用。该项目的成员首先访问了有乌尔都语媒体的地区，如印度、巴基斯坦、毛里求斯、英国、瑞典、挪威和丹麦，并收集了有关乌尔都语媒体的资料和信息。之后，在大坂外国语大学举行了两次国际研讨会。当时，来自伦敦大学东方和非洲研究学院、Sahitiya Akademy（印度国家艺术学院）和巴基斯坦教育大学的著名乌尔都语和文学学者应邀参加了研讨会。这两次专题讨论会圆满结束，会上宣读的所有文件都经过修订，并提交给印度和巴基斯坦，供编写项目报告之用。

This Project aimed to study on the transnational network of Urdu media by the South Asian Muslims. Urdu language has been used by most of the Muslims in South Asia as a lingua franca' and those Muslims, who migrated to all over the world and established their own communities, used Urdu for communication. That is why many newspapers, journals, magazines and books were printed and published in Urdu in those communities. There are also English media available among those communities for the convenience, especially on the internet, but those English media also provides information about South Asia, even literary activities on Urdu. Now in the era of cyber-media of low cost, South Asian people established a unique network of media among the immigrants mainly in Urdu and English. Urdu language is regarded as the third largest language in the world, but since its letters, grammar and literary heritage are distinctive, the users of this language have been using the media of this language as an ethnic media. This media stimulates ethnic or Muslim identity among the people.The members of this project first visited those areas where Urdu media was available, such as India, Pakistan, Mauritius, England, Sweden, Norway and Denmark and collected sources and information about the Urdu media. Then the members had international symposiums at Osaka University of Foreign Studies twice. At the time renowned scholars of Urdu language and literature were invited to the symposium from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Sahitiya Akademy (National Academy of Art, India), and the University of Education, Pakistan. Those two symposiums ended in success and all the papers read at the symposium were revised and submitted for the project report, which is now under the consideration for the publication from both India and Pakistan.