Ahead of the International Mother Language Day, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu wrote to members of Parliament urging them to contribute in direction of the promotion of Indian languages.
He described the primary realized and spoken mom tongue because the ‘soul of life’ and made a passionate enchantment to all MPs in a three-page letter.
The Rajya Sabha chairman elaborated on the significance of robust foundational expertise within the first language within the preliminary years of casual studying at dwelling, the place schooling begins.
Naidu mentioned the mom tongue is the primary window of an toddler to the world and there’s sufficient proof suggesting that robust literary expertise within the first language spoken at dwelling considerably assist in bettering tutorial efficiency and even facilitate studying a second language.
The artistic skills of kids ought to be allowed to flourish by eradicating language limitations, he mentioned.
The International Mother Language Day falls on February 21.
Naidu reached out to MPs of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha in numerous broadly spoken Indian languages and English by means of e-mail.
Elaborating on the consequence of neglecting native languages, Naidu mentioned that it leads to the lack of data collected over time in respective cultures, of which languages are a manifestation.
“With a multiplicity of languages and a wealthy spectrum of dialects, we now have areas that are repositories of data a lot of which stands imperiled as we speak.
This is especially on account of a mindset of wanting down upon one’s mom tongue and sporting the linguistic badge of competence in English as a false signal of superiority.
“Culture and language are the two sides of the same coin. They embody rich knowledge and practices accumulated over a long period. Extinction of a language results in the loss of precious legacy. We can’t allow this to happen,” Naidu mentioned in his letter.
The vp pressured on the necessity for selling native languages for preserving the nation’s wealthy cultural range.
“We take pleasure in India being a mosaic of a number of languages and cultures epitomising unity in range.
This applies to the world as nicely, which is rising as a worldwide village.
The richness of our numerous cultures can solely be preserved by means of promotion of mom languages,” he wrote.
Noting that studying extra languages is beneficial because it gives extra home windows to the world in addition to enabling cross cultural understanding, peace and concord, Naidu pressured that “it could actually’t be achieved and not using a robust basis in a single’s personal first language.
Mother tongue is the soul of life”.
Naidu referred to as upon every MP to be an lively facilitator in selling native languages within the massive areas they characterize and to start out with by taking on applicable communication and outreach programmes on the event of ‘International Mother Language Day’ by drawing inspiration from the motto of “Let us love and promote mother tongue”.
“I request you to be an lively facilitator in selling native languages within the massive space you characterize within the Parliament.
Given your standing among the many folks you characterize, your efforts might give a fillip to the promotion of Indian languages.
“I sincerely hope that you would agree with me on the need for preservation and promotion of all Indian languages and do whatever is possible to enrich them,” he instructed the MPs in his letter.
Naidu additionally knowledgeable the MPs that about 200 Indian languages are dealing with extinction and the UNO has expressed concern over one world language changing into extinct each two weeks.
