International Mother Language Day

The idea to celebrate International Mother Language Day was the initiative of Bangladesh. It was approved at the 1999 UNESCO General Conference and has been observed throughout the world since 2000.

UNESCO believes in the importance of cultural and linguistic diversity for sustainable societies. It is within its mandate for peace that it works to preserve the differences in cultures and languages that foster tolerance and respect for others.  www.un.org

These are some compositions written by the students of the faculty of oriental studies DSU to contribute to the celebration of this day.

My native language is Tabasaran.In comparison with other languages, it is the most difficult one.

The number of languages ​​spoken by the indigenous nations of Dagestan cannot be exactly recorded. We can only say that 14 of them have a writing form. The most difficult of them and, according to the Guinness Book of Records, one of the most complicated in the world is Tabasaran. The language of the Lezgin branch of the Nakh-Dagestan language family holds the world record for the number of cases - they are distinguished in the Tabasaran language from 44 to 52! It contains 54 letters and 10 parts of speech, with prelogs missing, and postlogs are used instead. So that the life of the student of the Tabasaran language does not seem like honey, there are three dialects in the language. But there are a lot of borrowings in the Tabasaran dictionary.

 In our family, everyone speaks both in the Tabasaran language and in Russian. My parents believe that knowing their native language is necessary.Zulfikarova A.3rd year student.

The Lak language is the native language of Laks.

The Lak language does not have dialects, it differs sharply from others, such as, for example, the Dargin and the Avar languages. Therefore, all Laks understand each other.

About 146 thousand people speak the Lak language. But this language has the status of endangered.

My parents say that I had been fluent in my native language since I was three years old. At the same time I knew Russian well.

But when my cousins ​​came to us for the summer, I had to speak Russian to them, because they did not know the Lak language. So I gradually began to forget my native language.

This happens to most of Dagestanis. Therefore, the Lak language is gradually dying out. Like many other Dagestan languages.

I think this is very sad. Therefore, I try to practice more often, speaking this language. Because I do not want it to be forgotten. Magomedova S, 3rd year student