Every society is recognize by it's culture, norms ,values and language it's one of the integral part of culture. In every society different kinds of languages and tones are being spoken by different people. Conventional old language promoted by forefathers called mother language. This language is spoken by our parents forefathers and so on, also transmitted by the 'X' generation to'Y'.
The nations who forget about their mother language they can't got success as well as damage the roots of their language. In Pakistan Punjabi is the mother language of Punjab province and urdu is national language. Punjabi has a very vast wealth of knowledge in it's own, punjabi saints utilize this language in their poetry as well as in their literature. Khawaja Gulam Fareed was one of the best punjabi saint. In recent age we are not giving the importance to it as it deserves. Societies are divided in to three classes, upper class, middle class, and lower class. Same like this in Pakistan we are categories the language according to their status, english is an international language it got more prestige than urdu/punjabi. In lower degree urdu got importance but in third and last stage punjabi stands.It is an assumption by us that punjabi is the language of third class poor people.
I want to share a memory regarding this issue:
One day i was in University my class mates were sitting with me, two girls were conversation in punjabi language and my class mates take it as a joke and abhor them. How much disgusting it, is this a joke to speak mother language. Many people feel proud to tell that they are unaware about the punjabi. I am not fadup from english language, i know it is the need of time but why we are in this complex that if we speak punjabi it will reduce our prestige. Hindi and Chinese are two most vast languages speaking in the world because they love their language and culture. If there is somedody who really promote the punjabi culture that are ''Singhs''. In India and all over the world singhs feel proud to speak punjabi and they prefer this language.
It is a good effort to adopt other international languages but don't feel complex about your own mother language. The nations who forget their mother language they deprive from their identity. Don't feel shy to speak your mother language because if you feel shy then you are being insulting yourself as well as your mother language too.
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