By TCN News,
Aligarh : The Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh organized a National Symposium on ‘Linguistic Biodiversity: Issues and Problems’ on 26th Professor Awadhesh K Mishra, Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore and presided over by AMU Pro-Vice Chancellor, Brigadier (Retd) S Ahmad Ali.
Addressing the inaugural function, Professor Awadhesh Mishra said that no culture or ‘sanskaar’ can survive without the support of its language. He said that it was not the duty of only government to protect a language but rather the duty of all citizens to come forward for protection of Indian languages. He said that education should be imparted to children in their mother tongues with two more languages, one belonging to the state and another that is English, as part of the school curriculum.
Dr Shabana Hameed addressing the National Symporium at Department of Linguistics.
Brigadier (Retd) S Ahmad Ali expressed his concern saying that India is a multilingual country, and it is a matter of concern that some languages are nearing extinction. Brig. Ali said that language and local dialects play a very important role in strengthening the cultural heritage of any country. Professor S Imtiyaz Hasnain said that a language is not merely a cluster of words or a set of grammatical rules, but a flesh of the human spirit by which the soul of a culture reaches into the material world. He commended that the issue surrounding the linguistic Bodiversity,
language loss and language extinction which have hitherto always remained a concern for few linguistics, has now attracted attention of several individuals, and community of speakers of endangered languages.
Professor Avdhesh Kumar
Professor AR Fatihi said that a new vision and scale of values is necessary for safeguarding the world. Over the past decade, the field of linguistic biodiversity has given rise to an era of trans-disciplinary research, concerned with investigating the links between the world’s linguistics, said Fatihi.
Dr Shabana Hameed on the department conducted the program and Mr Masood Ali Beg proposed the vote of thanks.