Languages are spoken and written to communicate, read , write and record . It is an established fact that a child learns extensively and very quickly in its ancestral or mother language since it is the mother first that attempts communicating with the child in the mother tongue and the child learns and understands fast . It is another thing that under the influence of dominating languages in which education is imparted , say English , now children right from cradle are made to get acquainted with that language much to the detriment of the sustainability of the native mother language and its dialect . That is the bane of the ancestral languages getting slowly less effective, if not vanished altogether.
Here in Jammu , it is a stark fact that we, on our own, have virtually forgotten our ancestral language and the “DograAkkhar” as well , as a natural corollary. Its richness in historical perspective is not to be measured by any yardstick except that it is the original , oldest , native or indigenous sweet language . We must strive for revitalisation of this language looking to the fact that world’s more than half languages spoken are under the threat of being swallowed by the dominant languages. We must , however, look to countries like Russia, France, Germany, China etc where indigenous languages are not only spoken but encouraged as well at national and international levels. The Draft Education Policy announced by the Government , verily as such , lays emphasis on learning basic education up to primary classes in the mother tongue and this could come handy in reviving the glory of our Dogri language, more so importantly, the “Dogra Akkhar” known as Takri.
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