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To make the other language inferior is the dirty play played in the linguistic history.Gondi should be popularized. Its the same situation in Aryan era and Colonization era. The native languages should give predominance. India should learn alot lot from Brazils Amazonian indigenous communities.
@Madathil. You are spot on
Gondi, one of the most ancient languages of India, is on the verge of becoming extinct. This is despite the language being the mother tongue of millions of people inhabiting the Gondwana region in Central India that includes large areas in Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.
The use of Gondi has become restricted to remote villages in interior forest areas. Although there has been a steady struggle to preserve the tongue from dying out, its future still seems uncertain.
Especially in schools and, to some extent, in the ‘outside’ society, an environment has been created where speaking Gondi is considered a sign of ‘backwardness’.
Gondi speakers are looked down upon as “uncultured” or “illiterate”. Because of this, many speakers begin to distance themselves from the tongue. Not only this, they even try to hide their tribal or Gondi identity.
Recently, I came across a press release which claimed that Adivasis are being separated from their roots at the enormous Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), a factory of a school for indigenous students.
The educational institute, located in Odisha’s capital Bhubhaneshwar, is the largest residential school for indigenous children in the world. Nearly 30,000 tribal children from across the country are enrolled there.
The school teaches indigenous students to look down upon or disrespect their history and society. It antagonises them towards their culture, lifestyle and language, forcing them to consider it a sign of backwardness, the press release claimed.
The open letter, written by a few intellectuals to the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, stated that tribal children are deprived of even their native languages and are forced to speak and study in Odia and English.
The release also claimed that the children were not allowed to celebrate their indigenous festivals and are made to celebrate Hindu festivals and worship Hindu deities.
Is it soo hard to give equal rights to all humans and treat everyone equally?