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Why do you want to learn your language?”, “Learn English! the children speak in English fluently”, “What’s your mother tongue? - ‘Hindi”, “You belong to a tribe and you don’t you know your tribal language?” -- these are common remarks that the migrating people of a tribe settled in other areas, have to face. They usually avoid these questions or end up learning the language with the highest sociolinguistic capital in their surrounding context. Over a course of time, the language of their ethnic identity gets increasingly replaced in more and more domains. While these substitutions are taking place, when an individual contemplates about identity, the one thing that goes missing is the ethnic identity. Individuals not born and brought up around their tribe, lack the cultural and linguistic competence to appreciate one’s own ethnic identity. In course of time, this gives rise to an identity crisis. This crisis is not limited to one level, but on a wider arena there is language loss taking place. The reasons can be social, political, cultural, etc. Social reasons feature most prominently for all the stated problems and the strange questions that are asked. So, in the paper, attempts have been made to dissect the mentioned issues in vivid detail |
