Are we losing our Mother tounge

Is it Possible to lose Mother tounge for a person? Lets Take an Example, The Indian Who went to foreign countries and their child born their, Can We say foreigner for them? They are called NRI. The Genes Never leave anybody. Even When we make hybrid plants in Biology. Then can anything can leave their base, The proportion can be different. but losing is not possible.

Also There is an Interesting thing, the proportion is different but base is base. so you will always find a support from them. like NRI Will also support the India.

So the roots can never cut. :-)

We are not France or Germany to pump tonnes of money into "mother tongue". Our priorities are different. It is because of this mother tongue worship that the word "India" is a joke because we have some 1000 plus mother tongues. Only a self sufficient country can pay attention to the word called "mother tongue".

I don't think that we are losing our mother tongue.just we're neglecting the grammar that's all.Even we're speaking our other tounge in offices also.

Thanks for refer, Manoj,

Agree with Kamal that rural India is ensuring their best to make up for what we are fast loosing in exchange of quick gains. Yet is it right for us to continue this way is the question we must ask ourselves. 

English happens to be a business language hence it is been increasingly used, that in no way suggests that we are losing our mother tongue..indian languages have stood the test of time and adopted themselves to the needs of the present scenario and have survived.. we need not get panicky, instead we must make our languages operational business languages if and where possible and they will survive.. Yes the purity of the languages have reduced with increased usage of english interludes in between.. NO we aren't losing them!!!

No, I dont agree with the argument.

Although we are adopting english at work culture however our children when born still speak HINDUSTANI.

We must understand that 75-80% of INDIA consist of BHARAT.

Mother tongue will remain intact till our mother is safe.

A macro view: When India got freedom, the politicians had followed the footsteps of British government in every aspect. There is no prudence in deciding the economy policy at macro level as well as micro level. They did not follow the Great leader Gandhiji also who advocated rural based economy. I strongly belive this should be the cause for the current economic scenario in which the educated community is more dependent (they could not think on their own, no cultural preferences, no affection towards anything, no importance to MOTHER TONGUE and only MONEY is the matter for this urban India.)


Kindly note: This is not only the real India. We are not losing our mother tongue. We are not allowing the people from the rural India to grow eventhough they are potential but we brand them that their communication is not good. (their real problem is not communication but English proficiency). Please help them.

thanks

Senthilkumar

China, Germany, France, and Japan contributes large part of world business and population also.

China prefers to work in chinese, Germany prefers to work in german, France prefers to work in french, Japan prefers to work in japanese. They want everybody to learn local language if anybody want to work locally.

Girish, Kindly mention which Global Mother Tongue you are talking about.

No. This debate is limited to big cities. Yet we should prevent the 'craze' for English from seeping down.

Yes we r indeed loseing our mother tounge, we have depended on english or with a mixed language

No, we are not losing mother tongue. There are many ways to gain our mother tongue like sites in local languages.

All languages have their own beauty: mother tongues or father tongues. What is essential is to have a sense of regard for all languages including one's own language. The tendency to rely too much on English may not be bad because, like it or not, it is the international language of business and commerce. But knowing one's own tongue be it Marathi or Bengali may be a source of eternal pleasure as linguists tell us that we may speak any language but we think in our own tongues.

Dear Manoj, 

This is a great topic you share here with all of us and thanks from heart. As per the everyday and each second variation in scenario and education in India changes the way of living standard, thinking, language, eating habit, way of talking and etc. But side by side we are loosing our self and left behind the language. You are discuss here that we are loosing language our Mother Tongue "Hindi" which is the base of our making us and our identity. Yahan par bhi hum jab koi baat ya ideas share kartey hai tu english hi use kartey hai lekin Hindi ka prayog koi nai karta. Woh isliye kyunki humein english ko use kartey samay abhimaan mehsoos hota hai. Lekin hum aaj bhi Hindi ka prayog apney circle mein use kartey hai. 

It is not important that we are loosing our mother tongue but we are using less because 98 percent of population in world using english for business purposes, education or anything. Especially English use in Tourism Industry which the upper most way of Income of a country. We are using English because of earning and make our network. Hindi always be in our and Indians can never loose their Mother Tongue even it grows more than USA. Our identity is from Hindi and we are "Hind Desh ke Waasi Hai".  

Thanks

i do not agree what Mr Manoj Kumar has spoken of.Fundamentals to enrich your culture is regular exchange of ideas,business.The business plays an important role in creating awareness of different cultures.The people use their own language when emotionally connected.

no...we r not loosing our mother tongue...still u can visit large part of India..where u will get to hear their mother language.....yes this is true dat in cities n towns people r trying to get habituated to language which is preferred for job n all...but it doesn't mean dat they r not aware of their mother tongue but they rarely used as not get time to sit with frnds n family....still when people sit wit their families they prefer talking in their mother tongue...

so we have to just make balance of languages according to atmosphere n we can come over this problem...

Thanks for the referral Ms Sarika,

           Linguists say that Mother tongue is a language in which we can Talk, Explain and Understand. Along with this, it is a language in which we can Think, Dream and Curse. A lot of people amongst us are able to do this in more than one language.

             Mother tongue to most of us is a language which was spoken by our ancestors and is usually spoken by us. I think we are not loosing our Mother tongue, but are acquiring other languages.