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Lost beauty of Telugu
The International Mother Language Day was announced by UNESCO on November 17, 1999. It is celebrated all over the world to help people reminisce the beauty of their “mother language”.
Today is International Mother Language Day
With the corporate world driving us towards “hanging out” and conversing in only one language i.e. English, it is creating a huge impact on our own mother language, Telugu. Surprisingly there are hardly any people left who realise the importance of mother language, which is actually the basic foundation for one to excel in other languages.Our mother language is in a dying need to grab in some interest.
The International Mother Language Day was announced by UNESCO on November 17, 1999. It is celebrated all over the world to help people reminisce the beauty of their “mother language”. With English being the primary mode of communication in urban India, other languages have taken a backseat in everyday lives. While proponents of several languages lament that the younger generation considers local languages inferior to English. According to the youngsters, there is a lack of available avenues to freely exercise their mother language.
Uma Gayatri, Telugu Author and a Teacher says, “Mother language is the only language which has the power to develop the creativity skills in a human. Sadly, we have reached to a stage where people are learning just for the academic curriculum in the schools. Once their schooling is done and so is their language. This is not just happening in our country but then the entire world is facing the same problem, except the countries that hold the economic power is still not losing it language importance.”
“With the nuclear families in today’s world and the parents being busy with making money plans to make their life luxurious, there are hardly any who think to sit down with the kids and teach them right from they begun to talk. Kids till they reach 6 years have very sharp brains that learning anything is easy for them during that period. Mother language should be inherited in the kids apart from being taught in schools or from any special courses” adds Uma who shares about her daughter who speaks in 6 different languages being at the age of 5 years.
A young poet from the city, Shouvik Narayan Hore says, “English language is being the dominant language because of its necessity of the time. It is just that its importance is gradually growing; even the spiritual people of 19th century have talked in the English tongue like for example Vivekananda. Mother language is not dying but the potential of the mother language in this 21st century is declining.
One must understand the importance of their own language, which many don’t know and so is the reason for people ignoring it. ‘English is the utmost important language for the survival’ is very true but there is a necessity that there is a revival of mother language.”
By Bhagyashree Kottoori
