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When a country has its own currency, flag, and national language, it is called a nation. Language is all important. It is the common language which binds the people together. It gives them a sense of oneness.
It develops in them the spirits of unity. Our country, in which so many disruptive elements are at work, urgently needs a national language. Unless all the people feel themselves to be the sons and daughters of the same motherland, our freedom itself would be in peril. Our country, which achieved its freedom fifty years ago, can become strong and powerful only through a common national language.
India is a large country both in area and population. Her people differ from each other in their ways of living. A Bengali can be recognized from a Punjabi even at a miles distance. Their languages are also different. The languages spoken and written in Southern India are totally different from those used in the North. So, when the question of the selection of a national language comes to the fore, difficulties arise. In this way the size of the country and its population are the greatest obstacles in the way of the selection of the national language.
It develops in them the spirits of unity. Our country, in which so many disruptive elements are at work, urgently needs a national language. Unless all the people feel themselves to be the sons and daughters of the same motherland, our freedom itself would be in peril. Our country, which achieved its freedom fifty years ago, can become strong and powerful only through a common national language.
India is a large country both in area and population. Her people differ from each other in their ways of living. A Bengali can be recognized from a Punjabi even at a miles distance. Their languages are also different. The languages spoken and written in Southern India are totally different from those used in the North. So, when the question of the selection of a national language comes to the fore, difficulties arise. In this way the size of the country and its population are the greatest obstacles in the way of the selection of the national language.
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“A national language represents the national identity of a country”
March 3, 2013 5 comments
National language is a driving force behind national unity, writes Asim Nawaz Abbassi, 27, of Islamabad in Pakistan, yet in spite of having constitutional status there is no plan to promote the use of Urdu in Pakistan. English is becoming the symbol of the elite.
Beside a boundary, a name, a flag, or a currency, what makes a country become a respectable and unique nation is its national language.
Indeed, national language is a clear indicator that represents the national identity of a country. Language is a sensitive issue. It’s also part of a nation and a person’s heritage. To understand and penetrate deep into a community, one must be able to speak and understand the language of the community. Fluency in the national language will surely enable the person to fully understand that community’s particular nuances and cultural aspects.
National language is a driving force behind unity of the nation’s people, and makes them distinct from other nations – provided you give your language respect. Giving respect to your national language means that it should be one’s primary language, as well as the preferred source of communication at every level. One should know as many languages as one can absorb, but use one’s own language at every level. History proves that every great leader tried his best to strengthen the national language. China’s revolutionary leader Zedong Mao had a great respect for his own language. Notwithstanding knowing many other languages, he never used them and preferred to use Chinese as his medium of communication. One can gauge the importance of a national language by the fact that Language Movement is considered to have laid the foundation for the separation of one part of Pakistan into Bangladesh.
But unfortunately the case is the opposite with Pakistan compared to most of the other Asian countries like India and Bangladesh. The 1973 constitution of Pakistan promulgated Urdu to be the national language of Pakistan and set out the required arrangements to be made so that Urdu would be used for official and other purposes within 15 years of its commencement. Nevertheless, after the gap of more than 60 years, no specific arrangements have been made and no clear plan or policy has been devised to attain this constitutional goal. Parliament has not passed any law or formulated any policy to date to ensure the replacement of English by Urdu for official purposes.
Because of the Government’s lack of serious effort, the current generations are far from their national language. We can clearly observe a gradual increase in the number of elite youth whose command over all the required four skills for the Urdu language seems to be on a downward trend. Instead, English is becoming the symbol of the upper class elite and an inaccurate benchmark by which one’s literacy is judged. The competitive examinations in Pakistan through which the bureaucracy of the country is filtered have a strong bottle neck because they use English to judge candidates’ competitiveness.
It made me astonished and dismayed while listening a lecture to learn that there is no nation in five thousand years that disrespected its own national language, and yet has excelled in economy and development with the help of some language other than its own. I am not against bilingualism, but we should be excellent in our national language. We witness many nations like Germany, China and Iran which love their language and literature and still are more developed and stronger than those which do not do so.
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“A national language represents the national identity of a country”
March 3, 2013 5 comments
National language is a driving force behind national unity, writes Asim Nawaz Abbassi, 27, of Islamabad in Pakistan, yet in spite of having constitutional status there is no plan to promote the use of Urdu in Pakistan. English is becoming the symbol of the elite.
Beside a boundary, a name, a flag, or a currency, what makes a country become a respectable and unique nation is its national language.
Indeed, national language is a clear indicator that represents the national identity of a country. Language is a sensitive issue. It’s also part of a nation and a person’s heritage. To understand and penetrate deep into a community, one must be able to speak and understand the language of the community. Fluency in the national language will surely enable the person to fully understand that community’s particular nuances and cultural aspects.
National language is a driving force behind unity of the nation’s people, and makes them distinct from other nations – provided you give your language respect. Giving respect to your national language means that it should be one’s primary language, as well as the preferred source of communication at every level. One should know as many languages as one can absorb, but use one’s own language at every level. History proves that every great leader tried his best to strengthen the national language. China’s revolutionary leader Zedong Mao had a great respect for his own language. Notwithstanding knowing many other languages, he never used them and preferred to use Chinese as his medium of communication. One can gauge the importance of a national language by the fact that Language Movement is considered to have laid the foundation for the separation of one part of Pakistan into Bangladesh.
But unfortunately the case is the opposite with Pakistan compared to most of the other Asian countries like India and Bangladesh. The 1973 constitution of Pakistan promulgated Urdu to be the national language of Pakistan and set out the required arrangements to be made so that Urdu would be used for official and other purposes within 15 years of its commencement. Nevertheless, after the gap of more than 60 years, no specific arrangements have been made and no clear plan or policy has been devised to attain this constitutional goal. Parliament has not passed any law or formulated any policy to date to ensure the replacement of English by Urdu for official purposes.
Because of the Government’s lack of serious effort, the current generations are far from their national language. We can clearly observe a gradual increase in the number of elite youth whose command over all the required four skills for the Urdu language seems to be on a downward trend. Instead, English is becoming the symbol of the upper class elite and an inaccurate benchmark by which one’s literacy is judged. The competitive examinations in Pakistan through which the bureaucracy of the country is filtered have a strong bottle neck because they use English to judge candidates’ competitiveness.
It made me astonished and dismayed while listening a lecture to learn that there is no nation in five thousand years that disrespected its own national language, and yet has excelled in economy and development with the help of some language other than its own. I am not against bilingualism, but we should be excellent in our national language. We witness many nations like Germany, China and Iran which love their language and literature and still are more developed and stronger than those which do not do so.
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