Evolution of natural human languages was the topic in discussion in my previous article. English is a common international language being spoken by every one now a days. As a mode of fast communication, a common language becomes a necessity day by day. Similar to a smart phone which is out of station or without proper signal, a common language is not reachable to every single person on this planet. Reasons may be multiple - but I think illiteracy and poverty are the major factors which stop one from learning a common language. So before a common language gets into the human brain, it gets occupied with mother tongue languages or the languages fed to any human child born in this planet. From a scientific point of view, human language is considered as one language, as it differs from animals or birds or other living organisms except humans. Multiple factors like modulation, vocabulary, accent, speech style, regional dialects etc have induced an infinite variation or wide diversity in the human languages spoken around the world.
Like a karaoke remix for music, we have a remix for the human languages as well. For example - Hindi + English = Hinglish, Tamil + English = Tanglish etc. It also goes a step ahead by mixing Original Language + Regional Language + International Language + Some Uknown New Words :) Some may argue that this mixing is just another form of evolution of spoken languages. Some may argue that this leads to the endangerment of native authentic language itself. I will leave this debate to the linguistic scholars or researchers as they have enough knowledge already on this subject. As per my point of view, we can try to at least learn more vocabulary of our own native languages and avoid some mixing elements right from childhood. Another research says that most of the people does not even speak their own mother tongue or they stopped speaking it.
Once we are fluent and proficient in the learnt language, why not speak it without mixing other languages in it. I guess the chance of mixing international language English is more in regional languages than vice versa. Just think how it will be when some one mixes their native language words into fluent English while they speak. I agree this mixing occurs more for a learner who learns a new language to convey the message to the person who knows it. As they become fluent in languages, they should stop mixing it. So bottom line is if you know one language, try to know it proper (this doesn't mean you have to get a PhD. on it or learn it 100% perfect) at least to communicate correctly to another person who knows the same language well.
We are still not sure how or what our ancestors would have spoken or what would have been the words used by them a millennium ago. If you are interested more in the history of it, you can Google it but you may not get the accurate results. As humanity itself is evolving, we cannot stop the evolution of languages spoken by humans. At least saving humanity or any species in this world may be a matter to worry about but not the evolution of it. Where does this evolution of languages lead us to ? To a common language or single language in the near future - science and technology may have the answer.
I am sure most of us who know English can speak it without any break for hours without mixing other language words. So the challenge of this article is: Can you speak your mother tongue language (if you don't know it, please try to learn it soon) without mixing other language words for at least 10 minutes ? If you win the challenge, you can confidently say you have given some benefit in learning your own native language. Let the evolution of human spoken languages continue in a proper way....
-- Siva
Like a karaoke remix for music, we have a remix for the human languages as well. For example - Hindi + English = Hinglish, Tamil + English = Tanglish etc. It also goes a step ahead by mixing Original Language + Regional Language + International Language + Some Uknown New Words :) Some may argue that this mixing is just another form of evolution of spoken languages. Some may argue that this leads to the endangerment of native authentic language itself. I will leave this debate to the linguistic scholars or researchers as they have enough knowledge already on this subject. As per my point of view, we can try to at least learn more vocabulary of our own native languages and avoid some mixing elements right from childhood. Another research says that most of the people does not even speak their own mother tongue or they stopped speaking it.
Once we are fluent and proficient in the learnt language, why not speak it without mixing other languages in it. I guess the chance of mixing international language English is more in regional languages than vice versa. Just think how it will be when some one mixes their native language words into fluent English while they speak. I agree this mixing occurs more for a learner who learns a new language to convey the message to the person who knows it. As they become fluent in languages, they should stop mixing it. So bottom line is if you know one language, try to know it proper (this doesn't mean you have to get a PhD. on it or learn it 100% perfect) at least to communicate correctly to another person who knows the same language well.
We are still not sure how or what our ancestors would have spoken or what would have been the words used by them a millennium ago. If you are interested more in the history of it, you can Google it but you may not get the accurate results. As humanity itself is evolving, we cannot stop the evolution of languages spoken by humans. At least saving humanity or any species in this world may be a matter to worry about but not the evolution of it. Where does this evolution of languages lead us to ? To a common language or single language in the near future - science and technology may have the answer.
I am sure most of us who know English can speak it without any break for hours without mixing other language words. So the challenge of this article is: Can you speak your mother tongue language (if you don't know it, please try to learn it soon) without mixing other language words for at least 10 minutes ? If you win the challenge, you can confidently say you have given some benefit in learning your own native language. Let the evolution of human spoken languages continue in a proper way....
-- Siva
