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CLASSICAL LANGUAGE MARATHI SHRAMNIRMIT JALSWARAJYA RAJGAD: THE KING OF FORTS VOL.9 ISSUE 2 FEBRUARYFEBRUARY 20202020 ` 50 PAGESPAGES 5252 I SPEAK MARATHI, I HEAR MARATHI, I KNOW MARATHI, I RESPECT MARATHI We should have trust in the immense capacity of our mother tongue language never flourishes in imprisonment. Today’s prevalent Marathi has also been enriched by absorbing in itself words from Amany languages and colloquial terms. The language of any lively community or society never stagnates like a pond. Instead, it is like a flow- Gaurav Din ing river, welcoming and absorbing in it streams of new knowledge and thoughts. It can progress only by keeping touch with other progressive languages. Many languages that refused to do so, by sticking to rituals of purity, have died a natural death, and history has many such examples to show. Marathi has, however, kept this sensibility in its long journey of around 15 centuries. It has flourished by absorbing words and terminol- ogies from other languages. That is why I say that, we, its children, who doubt its capability of facing the challenges of new age successfully, are really weak! We are not against any language…and certainly not against English, which has been nurturing us with the love of an aunt! We only wish that our aunt hands over the control of our home to our mother. So, the question that we are facing is not of boycotting English, but of protecting and nurturing our very own Marathi! A language is not just a compilation of words. It is a force that takes forward society’s philosophical and ideological treasure through con- tinuously flowing streams of time, and which eventually gives unity, integrity, dimension and depth to the changing face of society.
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