[MLE] PAK moves to declaring mother tongues as national languages
Dear multilingual education friends,
There seem to be some significant moves in the language policies of our northern neighbour Pakistan. The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage earlier this months "declared major mother tongues as national languages and pledged not to allow 1linguiside' of rich mother tongues" A few quotes from the article NA panel for declaring mother tongues as national languages:
This one was new to me:
Regards,
Karsten
There seem to be some significant moves in the language policies of our northern neighbour Pakistan. The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage earlier this months "declared major mother tongues as national languages and pledged not to allow 1linguiside' of rich mother tongues" A few quotes from the article NA panel for declaring mother tongues as national languages:
This one was new to me:
Punjabi scholar Saeed Farani said many verses in the Holy Quran have emphasised the importance of mother tongue and all Sufi poetry was in local languages.With regards to MLE:
They urged the federal and provincial governments to take concrete steps for imparting education in mother tongues, as several regional languages were rapidly disappearing.On regional versus national:
The resolution acknowledged that all mother tongues of Pakistan belonged to the whole country, rather than just one particular area and that all mother tongues were rooted in Pakistan’s soil in entirety and thereby derived their national status.It seems the discussion centred around the major languages. I did not notice any attention given to the minority languages, but this seems at least a first step in the right direction!
Regards,
Karsten
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