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Promote mother tongue, AMU academics say
Aligarh: It is vitally important to educate children in their mother tongue, experts said at a seminar where other speakers called on the government to promote Urdu. Aligarh Muslim University's (AMU) T.B. Chakrborty pointed out that experts and linguistics feel that the mother tongue was the best medium for educating children. Jasim Mohammad, editor of The Aligarh Movement magazine, said official
Aligarh: It is vitally important to educate children in their mother tongue, experts said at a seminar where other speakers called on the government to promote Urdu. Aligarh Muslim University's (AMU) T.B. Chakrborty pointed out that experts and linguistics feel that the mother tongue was the best medium for educating children. Jasim Mohammad, editor of The Aligarh Movement magazine, said official
Latvians reject Russian as national language
Latvian voters resoundingly rejected a proposal to give official status to Russian, the mother tongue of their former Soviet occupiers, though the defeated referendum Saturday is expected to leave
Latvians reject Russian as national language
Latvian voters resoundingly rejected a proposal to give official status to Russian, the mother tongue of their former Soviet occupiers, though the defeated referendum Saturday is expected to leave
Polls open in historic Latvian language referendum
Voting stations in Latvia have opened in a historic referendum on whether to make Russian the nation's second national language.
Voting stations in Latvia have opened in a historic referendum on whether to make Russian the nation's second national language.
'Talking dictionaries' to preserve vanishing languages
To save the more than 7,000 languages spoken on our planet today from going in to oblivion by the end of this century, Linguists from the National Geographic's 'Enduring voices' have come up with the idea of 'walking dictionaries'.
To save the more than 7,000 languages spoken on our planet today from going in to oblivion by the end of this century, Linguists from the National Geographic's 'Enduring voices' have come up with the idea of 'walking dictionaries'.
Latvia votes: Is Russian our language, too?
Like a detective at a crime scene, chief language inspector Antons Kursitis scans the lobby of a hotel in downtown Riga. He spots a brochure that lists hotel services in Russian only, a flagrant
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