Thursday 5 April 2018

SAVE THE DIALECTS, PRESERVE CULTURE

Local dialects are to be saved. Linguistic contamination beyond a fair degree is to be avoided. What a vast variegation of cultures and they are to be preserved for each one plays its signature note in this terrestrial symphony of human evolution, each one carries within itself notes on human history and leaves behind its footprints on the sands of time. The ebb and flow of civilisation is writ large in its cultural derivatives for which language provides the primary tool, its prime vehicle. Each dialect is unique to its source, its habitat whence it has sprung, and carries in its womb the seed of its future cultural possibilities. Each dialect is uniquely positioned to express the ideas of its users and has in its evolutionary history the past of the race embedded in it.

Language is the coherent articulation of felt ideas, thoughts that have come within the ambit of the surface consciousness where expression may be and the hopes and aspirations and dreams of a people struggling to emerge from the past unto the glorious beckoning of a fragrant future. The present moment is but the compression of all of the past experience of a race and its future aspiration. It is the phenomenal reality where life momentarily lingers before shifting locale, the ephemeral contact point of the relative with the absolute. It is in this fleeting bit of momentary existence that language seeks to establish contact between co  

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