Bengalis’ self-identity is their mother tongue

      Bengalis’ self-identity is their mother tongue

Author – Reshma khatun, student of department of law Calcutta University main campus, West Bengal 

They are the first martyrs of Bengal’s independence who gave their lives to maintain the value of their mother tongue.

I think every person in my Bengal is a virtuous language warrior, culture warrior, and human warrior.

 Every person of Bengal has picked up the sounds in their voice, we identify them as ‘Bengali language’.There are many evolutions in this language. “Bangla” comes from the Bong species. The Bong species is a primitive human group in history. Where people from all over the world met.

 And the name of that combined ethnicity is Bengali.

 As the third entity arises through the parent, it is also an evolved entity. Humans are different from all other animals because of their language, sounds. Humans can pronounce their sounds differently.

Bangla is my life, my place in Bengal. Bengali language is our pride, we sing songs in Bengali. There are many Bengali languages, Bengal has no decay.

But nowadays English language has more status for us even born on the soil of Bengal. At present you may not know Bengali but English language has become very important to us. The reason is our way of thinking.We consider knowing English as our standard but actually this is a complete misconception.

We feel more comfortable introducing ourselves in our mother tongue.

In most countries of the world, the standard language is fixed from the spoken language of the powerful people of that country.

But there is a little exception in the case of India and Bengal.

When the Bengali language was established as a standard language, the Bengali language was colonized as a result of which the local elite, who were loyal to the colonial masters, became busy following them.

Then the Bengalis started accepting that English language as the standard language.

Pramath Chowdhury later explained. He started the current Bengali language movement. And introduced current Bengali language in his writings.

 Pramath Chowdhury expressed through a beautiful line that language has to go from the mouth to the pen but in case of Bengali because it comes from the pen to the mouth, the mouth gets a lot of ink.

 If we worry about the future of standard Bengal then we have to worry about literature, art, daily practice. In science, philosophy, the standard Bengali language is very backward.

And this backwardness raises concerns about the future of the standard Bengali language.

 Language is not only a matter of argument, not a matter of education, language becomes a reminder of self-identity for people.

 We have seen that once British rule and exploitation were two weapons. One is a weapon, and another is language. Now times have changed a lot but we value and continue to give more value to the language of those who oppressed us so much. Not  only in Bengal ,English is the official language of every state in India, but where English language is not their own mother tongue.