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Sahyadri Arts College, a constituent assemblage of Kuvempu University, conducted a connection scenery survey among students to people International Mother Language Day. The survey, according to the assemblage authorities, exhibited a miniature of 'multilingual India’ existing successful the assemblage field successful Shivamogga.
Among the respondents, 74% said their parent lingua is Kannada. Around 50 students said their parent lingua is the Lambani language, and 24 students’ parent connection is Urdu. There are students who travel from families whose superior languages are Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, and Malayalam, among others.
Of the total, 98% of students usage Kannada for regular communication. Around 14% usage Urdu for connection astatine location and wrong the community, and 8% of students converse successful Lambani astatine home. Around 45% of the students pass successful English for acquisition purposes.
The survey results were presented during a programme organised to people International Mother Language Day astatine the assemblage connected February 21. Professor M. Purvachar presented a summary of the survey.
Prof. Siraj Ahmed, main of the college, stated that the survey was conducted to recognize the linguistic diverseness connected campus. “The survey has shown absorbing results. We person students with antithetic parent tongues. For astir of them, English has go the mean of instruction. A bulk of them person stressed the request for bilingual pedagogy. These outcomes are indispensable to formulate policies connected acquisition and guarantee mother-tongue-based multilingual education,” helium said.
The main mentioned that helium plans to grow the survey to different colleges successful the coming days successful consultation with the vice-chancellor of the university.
Meti Mallikarjun, Professor of Linguistics, who was coordinator of the committee that conducted the survey, said that the committee framed questions and sought responses from the students by circulating a Google Form. “Out of 1,300 students enrolled successful the college, 750 responded. We had lone a mates of days to implicit the survey. Otherwise, galore much would person responded," helium said.
Highlighting the value of the day, Mr. Mallikarjun stated that UNESCO declared February 21 arsenic International Mother Language Day, commemorating the martyrs of the Bengali connection movement. “The lone happening that separates quality beings from animals is language. We speak. Therefore, we exist. 22 State languages are included successful the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. However, 19,526 languages are spoken successful India, according to the 2011 census,” helium said.
Noted theatre property Nataraj Honnavalli inaugurated the programme by speechmaking retired an excerpt from the play Aa Laya Ee Laya, a translation of South African playwright Lewis Nkosi’s The Rhythm of Violence.
Students and teaching module from antithetic connection backgrounds presented songs, poems, and dialogues successful their parent tongues arsenic portion of the programme. There were presentations successful Lambani, Telugu, Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Marathi.
