Seminar on IMLD in Balochi Academy: Adequate steps needed to save mother tongues from extermination
- February 22, 2015, 7:29 pm
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QUETTA: The adequate steps are needed to introduce mother languages at the international level besides making them the part of syllabus for advancement in education and development of any nation.
This and similar views were expressed by the speakers at a seminar on Mother Languages Day here at the Balochi Academy the other day.
The speakers were included the intellectual and former Chief Secretary Balochistan, Abdul Hakeem Baloch, Chairman Balochi Academy, Abdul Wahid Bandeeg, senior bureaucrats and intellectuals Munir Ahmed Badini, Ayub Baloch, senior journalist, Anwar Sajdi and others.
They spoke at length over the importance of mother languages. They said that imparting education to the people is necessary for nourishing their personality.
They also mentioned that the research has proved that it becomes easier for the children, who are imparted education in their respective mother languages from beginning, to learn other languages.
They said that the nations, which did not take steps for preservation of mother languages, lost them (languages).
So, effective steps are need to be taken to preserve the mother languages to save them from extermination, they stressed.
Chairman Balochi Academy thanked the participants for their participation in seminar and valuable input on the mother languages.
It may be mentioned here that the International Mother Languages Day was observed on February 21 all over the world including Pakistan and so in Balochistan to celebrate language diversity and variety worldwide on February 21.
Different activities were arranged by different literary academies and other organizations marking the Day in Quetta.
The importance of mother languages was highlighted on the occasion.
The theme for IMLD 2015 is "Inclusion in and through education: Language counts". Its focus is on one of the main challenges that cuts across many of the goals, i.e. Inclusion (equity/quality).
It also remembers events such as the killing of four students on February 21, 1952, because they campaigned to officially use their mother language, Bengali, in Bangladesh.
