The event will provide a unique opportunity to experience Pakistan’s linguistic and cultural diversity: more than 150 writers, poets and cultural activists will represent Pakistan’s mother languages. To commemorate the UN’s Mother Language Day, a two-day festival titled ‘Our Languages – Our Identity’ will be held in Islamabad on February 18 and 19, 2017. For the last two years, Lok Virsa has been actively promoting cultural diversity and celebrating mother languages. It considers all the languages spoken in Pakistan as national languages. Lok Virsa’s stance in terms of mother languages is very clear. It should enact laws that recognise and protect minority languages, encourage an education system that promotes mother-tongue instruction and create creative collaboration between community members and linguists to develop a writing system and introduce formal instruction in these languages. Since the most crucial factor is the attitude of those who speak a particular language, it is essential that the state creates a social and political environment that encourages multilingualism and respect for minority languages. However, these languages, with the exception of Sindhi, have no official status in Pakistan. The provincial languages of Pakistan are spoken and used in the four provinces – Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. According to the Parliamentary Paper 2014, 10 out of these 72 languages are either “in trouble” or “near extinction”. The 200 million people in Pakistan speak 72 different provincial and regional tongues, including the official languages, Urdu and English. A new language gives us a new worldview and makes us more aware of the cultures, lifestyles, customs and beliefs of other people.
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There is no harm in learning another language for it opens up new windows of opportunities and helps us understand life better. Unesco Director General Irina Bokova believes that, “mother languages in a multilingual world are essential components of quality education, which in itself is the foundation for empowering women, men and their societies”. Our personality, character, modesty, shyness, defects, skills, and all other hidden characteristics become truly revealed through the mother tongue because the sound of the mother tongue in the ear and its meaning in the heart give us trust and confidence”. Many psychologists believe that a strong bond between a child and his or her parents (especially the mother) is established through exhibition of love, compassion, body language and verbal communication language.Īccording to education specialist, Hurisa Guvercin, “When a person speaks his mother tongue, a direct connection is established between heart, brain and tongue. Our childhood is the most important stage of our lives and children can comprehend concepts and skills that are taught to them in their mother tongue quite fast. The mother language plays a crucial role in shaping an individual’s personality as well as his or her psychological development, thoughts and emotions. Without language, no culture can sustain its existence. It is the carrier of history, traditions, customs and folklore from one generation to another. Language is not simply an assortment of words but an entity that connects an individual to his family, identity, culture, music, beliefs and wisdom. This movement from one place to another affects peoples’ mother tongue. Sometimes people migrate in order to escape conflicts at home and to find safer and more stable living conditions abroad. The age of globalisation has seen thousands of people emigrate to other countries in search of better employment and educational opportunities.
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