The mother tongue is a great gift and trust provided by the mother to future generations, and it is everyone’s responsibility to pass it on to future generations. The greatest sin would be to betray this confidence. The most valuable gift a mother can give her children is her language, which she will pass down to future generations. Betraying this trust can result in the annihilation of nations and ethnicities.
Stepping into life, the mother’s lullabies for the kid, social movements, and backyard play are the first schools that create the framework for his mental upbringing and comprehension throughout his life. He begins his mental growth in the lap of his parents and society for seven consecutive years. He must attend intellectual and practical courses to become acquainted with the new life lessons. It will be easier for him to become acquainted with the world in the language in which he was raised in his first school because everything will stay the focus of his mind until death in that language. Whatever he thinks, he will think in the language that his mother has taught him. Choosing another language will set him back and cause mental upheaval, which will be a waste of time for the child and will impede his mental development.
Educators around the world are advocating for early childhood education in their native language. Whether another language is taught simply as a language or as an educational language, it will hurt the child’s mental development.
Global, cultural, linguistic harmony, togetherness, and solidarity, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), can be produced via the promotion of all languages spoken around the world. This expression suggests that you can’t live with someone if you don’t pay attention to what they’re saying. To be together, you must esteem his language to the point where he is comfortable that you are taking care of his trust. When you do not take care of his trust, psychologically his subconscious where the love of his mother, the language of society, and the trust of heaven will be concealed under his feet, he will not need to be shaken or raised by anyone but will cause you to hate. And he will subconsciously withdraw from the union in which you consider him to be.
As a result, the International Mother Language Day in the country where we live is also a result of the government’s mismanagement and anti-neglect policy, which also celebrates the International Day of Languages all over the world and in the same forums. Examples of Pakistan’s misconduct with the Bengali language are mentioned in the opening words, along with facts. The horrific day that occurred on the streets of Bangladesh on February 21, 1952, shattered the foundations of the United Nations as well as the world’s main institutions. This revolution brought the entire world to its knees, believing that neglecting a country’s language may be harmful to the life of any country or institution, as shown by the country’s elites’ mouths in the 1970s. This neglect policy had left no stone uncovered in separating a fledgling state like Pakistan into two halves.
Getting an education in one’s mother tongue is a basic human right in modern times. Elementary education is delivered in the mother tongue all throughout the world. Education in one’s native tongue has a favorable effect on children’s educational health; yet, the wreckage of our education system is in two languages that are not even one percent near to our society and ground reality. English is taught to us as a world language, and Urdu is taught as a unified national language. But no one is allowed to reveal who made all of these judgments. English is not spoken by anyone in this country. Moreover, according to data, Urdu is the language of less than 20% of those who have been introduced to it, despite their democratic opinion being held by 80%. In a democratic society, the state cannot act without considering the wants and trust of others. However, everything here contradicts the facts.
Mother tongues have not yet found their original place or status in the majority of the world’s countries. According to a United Nations estimate, around 3,000 languages are on the verge of extinction worldwide. Experts from all across the world believe that children should receive a basic education in their mother tongue. It would be As a result, language use must be maintained for languages to survive.
Balochi language was introduced at the elementary level in Balochistan when Shaheed Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was the Chief Minister, but when Jamali became the Chief Minister, he became an antagonist of Balochi and halted teaching.
When Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch became Chief Minister in 2013, he took steps to ensure that Balochi, as well as all other languages in the province, were taught in schools. The change resulted in a small boost in financing for literary organizations. Literary events were planned. Books up to the third grade were distributed to primary schools.
Following the allocation of thousands of posts to topic specialists in high schools and Urdu and English in colleges, there is a language known as Balochi that is frequently overlooked. Also, keep in mind that your native tongue does not require only a few postings in charity. When English and Urdu are worth thousands of dollars. Furthermore, due to a shortage of money, literary and research work in literary institutes has come to a halt.
Create distinct language development departments so that languages can be used globally and access to mother tongues on the Internet grows easier and easier. Mother tongues can be easily transferred, just as the world’s major languages may be quickly conveyed to other languages. Sindhi, Pashto, and Urdu are examples of this. This can make it easier to translate modern education and research resources into other languages. Alternatively, they may be simpler to grasp. The current government should take steps to establish job possibilities for those who are attached to their mother tongues so that they can adapt the languages to the needs of the new age. Fund such literary and cultural institutes for such work and allow them to play a part in bringing languages up to date.
Abdul Malik Rauf