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Move on to save indigenous languages

Mahbubur Rahman Khan
The International Mother Language Institution has begun a survey on languages of indigenous communities to revitalise and preserve them through documentation.
It is expected to complete surveying at least four to five languages by the next International Mother Language Day that is observed every year worldwide on February 21 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.
Every mother tongue or dialect has its
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beauty and rhythm. People ignore their mother tongue giving importance to popular languages, which often leads to extinction of their own languages, Director General of the institution Jinnat Imtiaz Ali said.
"Dialects are like mother and should not be disregarded. It will be a great loss if dialects and mother tongues die out," he added.
With the completion of the ethno-linguistic survey, many native languages will get recognition. The documentation will also lessen the possibilities of their extinction.
A 40-member committee comprising anthropologists and linguists has been conducting the survey. Researchers and field workers will also be engaged in collecting data
from native speakers.
The anthropologists will work on the nature of ethnic groups, which will help linguists understand as to how they express their emotion, anger, happiness and other feelings in their own languages.
Researchers will be sent to villages of indigenous people to learn their pronunciations of different words and the variation in those.
Regarding the languages that do not have any written form, Jinnat said field workers would use voice recorders to learn pronunciation of a particular word. In case of variation in the pronunciation, they will collect several samples, and linguists with the help of local experts will give it an alphabetical shape.
About the ethnic languages that
have written forms, he said their usage would be examined to identify grammatical errors.
"It will be a great achievement even if we can complete work on at least four to five languages by the next February," the director general of the language institution said.
Bangladesh Adivasi Forum General Secretary Sanjeeb Drong welcomed the initiative.
He, however, requested for inclusion of indigenous people in the project from the beginning to preempt error and controversy.
Back in 1952, students demonstrating for recognition of Bangla as a national language in the then East Pakistan were shot and killed on this day by police.