In the Constitution of India, every class has been given the right to preserve its language, script and culture. However, according to the survey of Vadodara’s Language Research and Publication Center, 20 percent of the dialects in the country have become extinct in the last 60 years.
Language is becoming extinct due to these reasons
People from far -flung areas of the country or many coastal areas of the sea went towards the cities in search of work. Due to which his languages gradually became extinct. At the same time, the people of Banjara community, who used to speak many bids according to their respective areas, also adopted the language of cities or other places with the passage of time.
Due to extinction of language, the knowledge of the entire group who speaks it also disappears. This is a big disadvantage. People keep their collective memory and knowledge alive only through language or dialects. Its disadvantage is cultural as well as economic. Today all technology is based on language, it is also economic capital.
If the community does not survive, the language will not be saved
If the language speaking communities do not survive, then the language will not be saved, that is why it is important that such a community also be saved. They should be associated with development. There is a need to make separate plans for people of the hill, coastal, plains, urban or nomadic communities. All languages should get security.
Many states have their own language in India. Be it Maharashtra, Kerala, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu or Karnataka or Hindi-spoken Bihar-UP. However, only 22 languages have been kept in the schedule. At present, they have been given security through the Constitution. Whereas the need is to protect all languages without discrimination. If the government does not do this, then gradually many languages will disappear.
However, Hindi does not need to be afraid of this. Hindi speaking people have crossed 60 crores. Hindi is the most spoken language in the world after Chinese and English. Hindi has also surpassed Spanish.
Hindi is the third most spoken language in the world
According to the World Language Database, there are 6 Indian languages among the 20 most spoken languages around the world, in which Hindi is third. 61.5 crore people around the world use Hindi language. At the same time, the Bengali language is ranked 7th in the list. 26.5 crore people around the world use Bengali language. Urdu ranks at number 11 with 17 crore people. Along with this, Marathi comes in 15th position with 9.5 crore people, Telugu at number 16 with 9.3 crore and Tamil language at 19th with 8.1 crore people.
8 billion people living in different geographical areas of the world speak different languages. One or two ‘global language’ cannot work for the whole world. In such a situation, the extinction of a language is not less than a major cultural loss.
8,324 languages are spoken or written worldwide
UNESCO estimates that there are 8,324 languages to bid or written worldwide. About 7,000 of these languages are still in use. However, the pace of disappearance of languages and dialects is fast. The United Nations says that one language of the world is becoming extinct every two weeks. In such a situation, International Mother Language Day is celebrated every year to maintain these disappearing languages.
UNESCO announced to celebrate 21 February 1999 as International Mother Language Day. Formally in 2008 the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) recognized the International Mother Language Day. This day is celebrated worldwide. This year is the 25th anniversary of International Mother Language Day.
Why was the date of 21 February chosen?
In Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, students and social activists of Dhaka University opposed the linguistic policy of the then Pakistan government to maintain the existence of their mother tongue on 21 February 1952. The demand of the protesters was to give official status to the Bangla language. The Pakistan police opened fire on the protesters, but the protest did not stop and finally the government had to give official status to the Bangla language.
In order to pay tribute to the youth who were martyred in this movement, UNESCO decided to celebrate International Mother Language Day in the General Coffee on November 1999 and the date of February 21 was fixed, after which every year the world celebrated International Mother Language Day on 21 February worldwide every year. Started going. This day has been declared a national holiday in Bangladesh.
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