Local Languages: On the verge of extinction

Dear readers,

I was in meeting with one of my client and suddenly he started to talk in marathi with his coulleague and one thought lead me to write a mail to my Mama, Sunil Garg. Below is the excerpt of the mail:

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 3:48 PM Adarsh Mangal <adarsh17mangal@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Mama,


Below is the draft of my new post to my blog. Please review it and provide your valuable suggestions and comments.

Hi,

It's been 10 months I am here in mumbai and what I observed is people prefer to talk in their local tongue than national language.

I meet various marathi and gujrati people and whenever they meet their known, they started to talk in marathi or gujrati, whatever the local language.

When I was kid and living in my hometown in Hadoti region of Rajasthan, I tought to talk in hindi rather than using my local language, Hadoti. The reason they gave is people will assume you as a villager but now when I see marathi people talking in marathi in big corporates, I am very sure that no one is thinking of them being villager and they proudly say that they are maharastrian people.

By the time, the Hadoti language is getting vulnerable (not at extreme level) and when I meet childrens from my region, they even don't understand the hadoti.

There is a sudden need to protect and spread the extinction of local languages across India because D. H. Lawrence (renowned writer) said "When people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language, it is as if they had key to their prison."

It's a humble request to you that please don't make our local language extinct. It is okay to hold fast in Hindi or English but to make connections and networking it is very much necessary to speak and understand the local language.

Regards,

Adarsh Mangal

Sunil Garg Baran

10:49 AM (3 hours ago)

to me

प्यारे भांजे

भाषा अभिव्यक्ति का माध्यम होती है

चाहे वो कोई सी भी हो

व्यक्ति अभिव्यक्ति जन्म के बाद अपने आस पास के वातावरण से सीखता है

जिसके लिए उसे किसी स्कूल जाने की जरूरत नही होती । रही बात हाड़ौती की तो वर्तमान में एक सवाल स्वयं से पूछना की क्या आपके बचपन मे आपसे हाड़ौती में बात की जाती थी या हिंदी में

जब हमारे आस पास का वातावरण हमारी क्षेत्रीय भाषा के सम्मान के प्रति उदासीन हो तो दूसरे लोग क्यों उसका सम्मान करेंगे।

रही बात गुजराती ओर मराठियों की तो वो अपनी भाषा के प्रति जागरूक भी है और कट्टर भी है दूसरा वहाँ के लोकल लीडर भी उनको भाषा को लेकर सपोर्ट करते है ।

गुजरात और महाराष्ट्र अपनी भाषा और संस्कृति के प्रति कट्टर इसलिए है क्योंकि इन राज्यो में बाहर के बहुत लोग आकर के रहते है जो कि इन राज्यो की संस्कृति में नही समझते ।

ओर बाहर से आया व्यक्ति अपनी संस्कृति और विचारधारा को लेकर आता है और बहुत सी चीजो को अपने हिसाब से बदलने की कोशिश करता है ।

जिससे conflict पैदा होता है और लोकल लोग अपने को असहज भी महसूस करते है और खतरा भी महसूस करते है ।

शायद आपको मेरे कम शब्दों में सार समझ मे आ गया होगा ।

Once there was a cultural function going on in my village of a certain scheduled caste and the whole function was hosted in Hadoti language. The following incident lead my thoughts to conclude that its about how our elders want us to talk and in which language. How they want us to present ourselves in front of others. It might be due to demographic combination of a certain region. People with large majority holds their roots with their culture and language while people with minority wants to stand out of them and make a special identity between them.