LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 6 June 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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The Issuing of a Symbiotic Disclaimer Out of the Socio-Linguistic Hegemony: Percussive Bengali and the Languishing Indigenous Tongues inside the Bangladeshi Main

Nitish Kumar Mondal, M.A. (Double)

It quickly upsets our conscience, and stirs us into a sense of the gripping shock, apart from the fact that it finds a channel to the atavistic heart of a distant ache, so very uncaringly thrust into the national consciousness. It is high time the phenomenon of the indigenous people and the controversy around their language question was seriously addressed. Inside the Bangladeshi main here, at present, this quandary slowly begins to worsen and one can feel its far-reaching effects. To cap it all, the indigenous few have to suit themselves to, and survive a parasitic and alien existence due to their being a seemingly unprogressive minority. And this simply is a telling window on how their distinctive tongues - the minority’s tongues - all along got to put up with a step-motherly treatment. However, it is worthwhile to notice how many dialects, for instance, Borishal’s dialect, Puran Dhaka’s dialect, Sylheti dialect, and a few others side by side, the colloquial tongue has spawned many of their numbers in the sixty four districts of Bangladesh; and interestingly enough, despite their being dialects and colloquial tongues, they are reinvigorated and rejuvenated in everyday practice at home, and outside at myriad workplaces, as well as in myriad walks of life.

Wherever the globe-trotting people speaking a variety of Bangladeshi dialects go, or live outside here - in the Bangladeshi main, they breathe fresh life into them (dialects) by practicing them every once in a while. The truth is, they have with them (in their memory and knowledge) the written and pure form of what they say (speak) albeit with a host of twists and turns. Simultaneously, in direct comparison to them (the Bangladeshi dialects and colloquial tongues), the pining aboriginal tongues here - the languages that scarcely have any written form - seem to fall and lag far behind; and in no way can we serve them both.

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Nitish Kumar Mondal, M.A. (Double)
English Discipline
Khulna University
Khulna-9208
Bangladesh
nitish.english@yahoo.com
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