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What Should The Country Speak? An Analysis Of Language Issue In India




Akash Chatterjee, Amity Law School, Amity University Kolkata


ABSTRACT


Language is basic to human civilization although words were not. Language cannot be categorized solely on the basis of any word or any particular way of speaking, it is rather the will of people to materialize their expressions, gestures and synchronise them to elicit responses. Any community existence depends primarily on the ability of the members to share their thoughts and desires with each other and in doing so they need a medium to communicate. That is the rudimentary root and beginning of language. With mankind’s evolution and diversification, different groups developed their unique way of speaking or rather conversing and thus laid the foundations of linguistic development. As the groups moved away from one another, the diversification continued along specifications of words, alphabets and letters. Although it seems simple, but reality shows a very different picture when such differences are made to coexist into an uniform unit. While uniformity claims homogeneity, Indian society is clearly not that. The diversity in India has become a challenge with respect to consolidation on the basis of language and the occasional spurts that it leads to.


Keywords: Language, Diversity, Uniformity, India, Mankind, Society, Identity.

Indian Journal of Law and Legal Research

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