Have you ever experienced this ?

Have you ever experienced this ?

Your destiny took you to some unique & remote place on earth. You learn to live with new language, new fabric of society and new set of people. What is the first thing that you miss ?

I missed my mother tongue. Its sweetness, its lovable diction, stories, songs etc. When I lived far away in Cambodia for some time I read book in my language. I spent all along listening to songs in my language in remote England. I was so yearning to speak to some one in my language in Vegas. The moment I see some one who resembles from my place, I moved close by to know if he speaks my language. There's nothing like feeling that delight, when you discover some one who speaks the same mother-tongue as you in unknown geography.

I felt the power of language when I met an elderly couple speaking my language in remote Cambodian temple town, a Tibetan lady speaking my language on unknown Tsoka hill ranges of Sikkim.

Language defines a culture, through the people who speak it and what it allows speakers to say. Words that describe a particular cultural practice or idea may not translate precisely into another language. Many endangered languages have rich oral cultures with stories, songs, and histories passed on to younger generations, but no written forms. With the extinction of a language, an entire culture is lost.

What if one, day you wake up and realize no one understands your language ? there's no one who could converse in your mother tongue ? isn't it a drastic as losing own mother ? This is very relevant to India, where every 50 kilometers new language is spoken. Irony is that, language were born when population was small. Now, languages are dying as population is exploding.

Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them not yet recorded—may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and the human brain.

See how many languages are in the way-out of extinction !