From the year 1999…17th November UNESCO declared that February 21st is to be celebrated world-wide as International Mother Tongue Day. Do know that there are around 3000-6000 languages spoken in this world. And this is the most pathetic part It is believed that 60% of around 6000 languages currently spoken in the world will have become extinct….
Mother tongue is so important in the upbringing and development of the child that the day was instituted in recognition of its value and for the promotion of its usage as an instrument for transmitting culture in the socialisation of the child…..This is day is not given due importance at alllllll by any governmentssssss…………. Shame on them and Shame on us toooo
Do we Value our Mother Tongue……………I doubt………….except for few
Now the biggest and most widely asked question is……Whether to use the mother tongue or not ?????
Without any doubt we all need to accept the fact language is the epicenter of culture….religion….and even humanity…….. The mother tongue conveys and transmits culture. It is through the language that the folktales, similes, proverbs, and other literary forms of the society are conveyed to teach societal morals and values and eventually socialise the individual……There is no greater injustice to mankind..or for people………….than to deprive them of their language ….Yes I do agree this thought very much….
As quoted by Vigdis Finnbogadottir, UNESCO’s Goodwill Ambassador for Languages and Former President of Iceland “Everyone loses if one language is lost because then a nation and culture lose their memory, and so does the complex tapestry form which the world is woven and which makes the world an exciting place”
Do you know which is the Killer….English is the Great killer language because the corporate world uses it….and world uses it…media uses it……… No..i am not against English….I love the Language English….But wnat people also to love thier respective languages….which we dont….
I have been seeing incidents in Televisions…where a child was beaten blue by their, respective Schools for talking in their Mother tongue…and made to write statements like i will not talk in XXXXX language… I say that you can love some thing..but for the sake of loving some thing..dont hate other…. This is what is happening….Love for ENGLISH…is making people neglect their mother tongue…and slowly start hating it….as people feel that there is no use of it all in their life..
Govt’s make people study thier mother tongue till thier 5th calss or some place till their 7th class..ot some where till their 10th class….after that….we will never be using it. Yes I am the classic case….stopped writing my Mother tongue in the 10th class….though i can read….i am finding it difficult in WRITING the language….i know most of the people agree this…And more…My cousins kid’s study in a big International school….and they talk to me that they second language is French..third is German….why not our Language………Love your language too…..Plz
To add to this
In Australia, where nearly all the 231 spoken tongues are endangered, the researchers came upon three known speakers of Magati Ke in the Northern Territory, and three Yawuru speakers in Western Australia. And researchers met the sole speaker of Amurdag, a language in the Northern Territory that had been declared extinct….
Many of the 113 languages in the region from the Andes Mountains into the Amazon basin are poorly known and are giving way to Spanish or Portuguese, or in a few cases, a more dominant indigenous language. In this area, for example, a group known as the Kallawaya use Spanish or Quechua in daily life, but also have a secret tongue mainly for preserving knowledge of medicinal plants, some previously unknown to science.English threatens the survival of the 54 indigenous languages in the Northwest Pacific plateau, a region including British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. Only one person remains who knows Siletz Dee-ni, the last of many languages once spoken on a reservation in Oregon.In eastern Siberia, the researchers said, government policies have forced speakers of minority languages to use the national and regional languages, like Russian or Sakha. Forty languages are still spoken in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico, many of them originally used by Indian tribes and others introduced by Eastern tribes that were forced to resettle on reservations, mainly in Oklahoma.
This is a shocker Language in Alaska called Ear has become extinct because the last speaker died. According to the report, though the speaker, a woman, had eight children, they were not permitted to speak Ear but English….. thats the plight
It was very exhaustive post..lots of research involved for this………But it would be great if you make you children speak and make them understand and Love your Mother Tongue……
AB’s Stroke: I am not a language fanatic at all… i love all languages….but i know the people from the other side…who love their own language..and show disrespect to other languages….That is more dangerous…..Love yours…but dont hate others…
A different language is a different vision of life.
Cheers
Vedams Gyan
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