The native language in the life of every person plays essential role in life, allowing you to communicate with others, get an education and preserve the culture of your people. Actually, for every nation, the native language is part of the culture.
international day mother tongue was proclaimed by the General Conference of UNESCO on November 17, 1999, but it has been celebrated all over the world since 2000. The date of February 21 was dedicated to events aimed at preserving the linguistic diversity and cultural values of the peoples.
In memory of students
Date, like any holiday, is not accidental. It was on February 21, 1952, in Dhaka (the modern capital of Bangladesh) that students demonstrated with slogans about the protection of their native Bengali language. Their main demand was the recognition of their language as the second state language, since a large number of people in the country spoke this language.
In response, the police opened fire on the demonstrators. In an attempt to suppress the uprising of the people who fought for the status of the Bengali language, 21 people died, and this event provoked a huge wave of protests. As a result, in 1956, Bengali was recognized as the state language along with Urdu, but the movement for the right of the Bengali language to the status of the state language resulted in bloody civil wars and provoked the Third Indo-Pakistani War.
In memory of the students who died on February 21, 1952, UNESCO decided to introduce world holiday- Mother Language Day, which is celebrated in all countries of the world. In addition, there is another official holiday that has the same date: Bengali Language Movement Day. The holiday is dedicated to the same events that took place on February 21, 1952 in Dhaka.
The process of disappearing languages
Despite the value of native languages for each culture, today they are rapidly disappearing from the face of the Earth, turning into "dead". Approximately half of the world's 6,000 languages are already on their way to extinction.
Development modern technologies only contributes to the process of dying out of some rare languages. Previously, it was believed that a language is “dead” if it is spoken by less than 100 thousand people, but now the Internet occupies more and more space in the life of mankind, because languages that are not on the Internet are simply doomed to disappear.
Most sites are built on English language, and it is already difficult to resist in Europe the replacement of mother tongues with universal English, which is known around the world. In the countries of the post-Soviet space special place occupies Russian, displacing the languages of national minorities.
The most famous "dead" languages
Latin
The Latin language in live communication was used in ancient times from the 6th century BC to the 6th century AD. It is declared "dead" because it is no longer spoken by any people in ordinary life. However, this language is of great importance for medicine and science, and is also actively used in Catholic sermons.
The Latin alphabet, which has received fantastic distribution, has become the basis for the formation of alphabets in many modern, fully used languages.
Biblical Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew was the language spoken by the Jews in ancient Israel. During the 1st millennium B.C. it was used not only for live communication, but also for writing books. He went out of use after the fall of the Hebrew statehood.
Until now, it can be found in biblical texts, other literature and poetry of ancient Jews. In addition, he left a mark in mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, chemistry and some natural sciences.
ancient greek
Ancient Greek is the direct ancestor of modern Greek. It was widespread in the Greek territories from the 2nd millennium BC. e. until the 4th century AD. This is the language of the philosophers and writers of the "Golden Age", and it was in it that famous poems"Iliad" and "Odyssey" by Homer.
Today it is not used almost anywhere, but its influence is felt in many other languages, including Greek. At the time when the Eastern Roman Empire was born on the basis of the Roman Empire, it gradually degenerated into the Byzantine one.
Old Church Slavonic
The Old Church Slavonic language disappeared in the 10th century, appearing in the 9th and having existed for only a century. It was the first language, which then underwent major changes, gave rise to several other languages and became the basis for some modern languages. It is believed that the modern Russian language originates from the Old Slavonic language.
Today, despite the status of a "dead" language, it has been transformed into Church Slavonic. It is actively used in all Orthodox churches, it is on it that most prayers are read in the walls Orthodox Church. He had a huge impact on the formation of a huge number of languages of the Slavic peoples.
Russian language will soon be "dead"?
Back in 2006, information appeared on the Internet that the Russian language was already “dead” in fact, and was living out its last years. The main argument is the results of a study by scientists from Tartu, who believe that the Russian language is degenerating, becoming monotonous and being replaced by slang.
It is also mentioned that in most professions common and universal English has long been used for official purposes, and only Church Slavonic is spoken in churches.
Thus, as the authors of this material assure us, the Russian language is living out its last few years, after which it will completely disappear from the face of the Earth. However, the primary sources that published the research of some scientists from Tartu long ago deleted their articles, from which only entries in blogs and news publications referring to them remained.
Judging by the fact that today there is just a revival of Russian culture, and more and more people are striving to switch to the literary language, abandoning slang and obscenities, it can be assumed that nothing threatens the Russian language in the coming years or even centuries. Most likely, the article was fake, and was used against Russia in the information war.
As long as millions of people in Russia speak Russian, and as long as there are thousands of writers who prefer to write their works in Russian, this language will be more alive than all living ones, and the status of “dead” will not unambiguously threaten it.
Mother tongue day celebration
In all countries, public events dedicated to native languages are held on this day. different peoples. Great attention is paid on this day to the languages of national minorities, since today it is very important to preserve the culture of small peoples, emphasizing their freedom.
In the territory Russian Federation today there are more than 15 languages that have official status, and 37 state languages in various republics of the country. These are languages with different roots and history, most often characteristic of small associations of people belonging to the same national group, which are spoken in a certain region of Russia.
The existence of the planet is inextricably linked with the development of population and speech. Linguistic diversity tends inexorably to decrease, which raises fears for the complete disappearance of most of the currently existing languages.
Story
International Mother Language Day appeared in 1999 on the establishment of the General Conference of UNESCO and entered the calendar life of our planet in 2000. Proclaiming this holiday, the primary task was set - to preserve the "endangered" languages, as well as to bring together the cultural and linguistic multitude of the peoples of the world.
A memorable day was chosen as the date of the Language Day. In Dhaka, on February 21, 1952, during a demonstration in support of the native language, students who proposed to raise the holiday to the level of an official one were killed by police officers.
Every year this holiday acquires a certain theme, drawing attention to various problems of the linguistic field. The following questions are raised and considered:
- Sign language and the Braille system.
- Facilitation between mother tongue and multilingualism.
- Preservation of cultural diversity.
- Illumination of various cultural traditions.
- The quality of linguistic education, etc.
UNESCO staff determined that on our planet a huge number of languages were used by the population, 200 of which have disappeared completely, and more than 2 thousand are on the verge of extinction, and only about 6 thousand languages are used.
In every country there are languages that may disappear with the death of their last speakers. The countries with the highest number of dying languages now are Indonesia, India, China, Brazil, Mexico, USA.
The reasons for the disappearance of the language are very diverse:
- decline in fertility;
- wars;
- deportation;
- migration;
- epidemics;
- language mixing.
V modern world Added to these factors is the emergence of dominant languages, the knowledge of which is more advantageous.
The disappearance of languages is dangerous not only from a linguistic point of view. Entire cultural layers may disappear due to the loss of traditions and folk art, which are directly related to the history of the language.
Traditions
On this day, employees of all UNESCO branches organize language events, various conferences, seminars, exhibitions, concerts are held in all countries.
In Russia, many schools have lessons that introduce children to the linguistic history of our planet and the topic of the disappearance of languages. Teachers tell why some languages are "erased from the face of the Earth", teach children to love and respect both their native language and foreign ones.
It is difficult to imagine how people communicated when the means of communication was not language, but, for example, gestures or facial expressions. Surely, without language today we would not be able to convey so figuratively and vividly all our emotions, experiences and thoughts, embodying them in songs, poems or prose.
1:1002 1:1007Our language is both modest and rich.
There is a wonderful treasure hidden in every word.
Say the word "high" -
And imagine immediately the sky is blue.
You say: "White-white all around" -
And you will see the winter village,
White snow hangs from the white roofs,
Can't see the rivers under the white snow.
Remember the adverb "light" -
And you will see the sun has risen
If you say the word you "dark",
At once the evening will look out the window.
If you say "fragrant", you
Immediately remember lily of the valley flowers.
Well, if you say "beautiful",
Before you - all of Russia at once!
The earth is inhabited by various living creatures: from the smallest bacteria to such giants as elephants and whales. But only man has the gift of speech. And no matter how we define this gift - sacred, divine, majestic, magnificent, priceless, immortal, miraculous - we will not reflect in its entirety its enormous significance.
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The spiritual treasure of any nation is the language
2:1432From the first days of his life, a person hears the speech of people close to him - mothers, fathers, grandmothers, and, as it were, absorbs the intonations of their voices. Even without knowing the words, the child recognizes people close and dear to him by the sounds of voices. Gradually, the baby begins to master speech and learn the world. And by the age of seven, as scientists have calculated, the child remembers more words than in the rest of his life.
2:2155From birth, it is necessary to lay in the soul of the child this heritage - the native language. It is not for nothing that people say that one can do without science in life, but not without one's native language. And that's exactly what it is.
2:341 2:346When you want to speak a word
My friend, think, take your time:
It happens to be lead
That is born from the warmth of the soul.
It will rob, or bestow,
Let inadvertently, let loving
Think about how not to hit
The one who listens to you.
In the whole world, there are from 3 to 5 thousand different languages. Among them are the so-called world languages - Russian, English, French, German, Spanish. There are state or official languages - Polish in Poland, Mongolian in Mongolia, Swedish in Sweden and many others. And most of the languages do not have any official “position” - they are just spoken ... one - 10 people, another - 100, the third - 1000, and the fourth - 10,000 ...
2:1550International Mother Language Day is primarily aimed at protecting endangered languages. And this task is important, because nowadays two languages disappear in the world every month....
2:315 2:320The history of the origin of the holiday of the native language
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Like any celebration, this international day has its own historical background. In 1952 in Pakistan, students from the University of Dhaka took part in a demonstration against the Urdu language. The majority spoke the Bengali dialect, so it was this language that the protesters demanded to recognize as the state language. However, they not only did not listen to them, but also began to shoot. As a result, four student activists were killed. After the death of these and other residents of Pakistan, as well as a series of unrest and liberation movements, Bengali was declared the official language in the country. The struggle for the right to use the manner of communication familiar from childhood was crowned with success.
3:2141 3:4Subsequently, at the initiative of the country of Bangladesh (recognized in 1971 as an independent state), UNESCO declared February 21 as the International Mother Language Day, which has been celebrated annually around the world for 14 years.
3:434 3:439Mother tongue day in Russia
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On International Mother Language Day, all languages are recognized as equal, since each of them is unique. In Russia, one language is the state language - Russian. In our country, love for the native language can be compared with a feeling of true patriotism that permeates everything and each of us. Especially if we are talking about primordially Slavic values, to which we can confidently attribute the Russian language.
4:1741I love my mother tongue!
It is clear to everyone, it is melodious,
He, like the Russian people, is many-sided,
How powerful is our power!
20 entertaining and unexpected facts about the Russian language that you probably did not know:
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Most words with the letter "F" in Russian are borrowed. Pushkin was proud that in "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" there was only one word with the letter "f" - the fleet.
5:1195 5:1200There are only 74 words in Russian that begin with the letter Y. But most of us remember only “iodine, yogi” and the city of “Yoshkar-Ola”. In Russian, there are words for "Y". These are the names of Russian cities and rivers: Ygyatta, Ylymakh, Ynakhsyt, Ynykchansky, Ytyk-kyul.
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The only words in Russian with three letters "e" in a row are long-necked (and others on the -neck, for example, crooked, short-) and "zmeeeed".
5:257 5:262In Russian there is a word with a unique prefix for the language ko- - zakuulok.
5:406 5:411The only word in the Russian language that does not have a root is take out. It is believed that in this word the so-called zero root, which is in alternation with the root -im- (take out-im-at). Previously, until about the 17th century, this verb looked like to take out, and it had a material root, the same as in remove, hug, understand (cf. shoot, hug, understand), but subsequently the root -nya- was rethought as a suffix - well- (as in "poke", "puff").
5:1204 5:1209The only one-syllable adjective in Russian is "evil".
5:1345 5:1350In Russian there are words with prefixes unique for the language i-, - total and total and a- - maybe (outdated and eight “and eight will not be lucky”), formed from the unions “and” and “a”.
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The words "bull" and "bee" are the same root. In the works of ancient Russian literature, the word "bee" was written as "b'chela". The alternation of vowels ъ / ы is explained by the origin of both sounds from the same Indo-European sound U. If we recall the dialect verb to roar, buzz, buzz and is etymologically related to the words bee, insect and bull, it becomes clear what it was general meaning of these words.
5:785 5:790Dahl suggested replacing foreign word"atmosphere" into Russian "kolozemitsa" or "mirokolitsa".
5:975 5:980Until the 14th century in Russia, all indecent words were called "absurd verbs."
5:1119 5:1124In the 1993 Guinness Book of Records, the longest word in the Russian language is called “roentgenoelectrocardiographic”, in the 2003 edition “highly contemplating”.
5:1454 5:1459In the Grammar Dictionary of the Russian Language A.A. Zaliznyak of the 2003 edition, the longest (in letters) common noun in the dictionary form is the adjective "private entrepreneurial". Consists of 25 letters.
5:1833 5:4The longest verbs are “to re-examine”, “substantialize” and “internationalize” (all - 24 letters; word forms - with and - having 25 letters each).
5:317 5:322The longest nouns are “misanthropy” and “high excellency” (24 letters each; word forms -ami - 26 letters each, however, “misanthropy” is practically not used in plural).
5:708 5:713The longest animate nouns are “eleventh-grader” and “clerk” (21 letters each, word forms -ami - 23 letters each).
5:974 5:979The longest adverb recorded in the dictionary is "unsatisfactory" (19 letters). However, it should be taken into account that the overwhelming majority of quality adjectives ending in -о / -й form adverbs ending in -о / -е, which are by no means always recorded in the dictionary.
5:1424 5:1429The longest interjection included in the Grammar Dictionary is "physical education hello" (15 or 14 letters depending on the status of the hyphen).
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The word "respectively" is the longest preposition and the longest conjunction at the same time. It consists of 14 letters. The longest particle "exclusively" is one letter shorter.
5:325 5:330There are so-called insufficient verbs in Russian. Sometimes the verb does not have any form, and this is due to the laws of euphony. For example: "win". He wins, you win, I... win? will I run? win? Philologists suggest using replacement constructions “I will win” or “I will become a winner”. Since there is no first person singular form, the verb is deficient.
5:1082 5:1087The English use the mnemonic "Yellow-blue bus" to successfully master the difficult phrase "I love you".
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Mighty and beautiful is our native Russian language
6:94There are many different worthy statements about the Russian word, but no one has expressed it better than the classics on this topic.
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"Our Fatherland, our Motherland is Mother Russia. We call it Fatherland because our fathers and grandfathers lived in it from time immemorial. We call it Motherland because we were born in it, they speak our native language in it, and everything in it is for mother - because she nourished us with her waters, learned her language and, like a mother, protects and protects us from all sorts of enemies ... There are many good states in the world, but a person has one mother, and one is his homeland.
12:823Konstantin Ushinsky
12:867 12:872"The Russian people created the Russian language - bright, like a rainbow after a spring shower, accurate as arrows, melodious and rich, sincere, like a song over a cradle: What is the Motherland? This is the whole people. This is their culture, their language.
12:1262Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy
12:1319 12:1324Respect for native language Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, urged to love and study it.
12:1517How beautiful is my native language,
Magical, melodious, playing.
Like a transparent crystal spring
Caressing the heart and soul.
In it, every word is a priceless diamond.
Every song in it is beautiful.
Sometimes beautiful, sometimes harsh,
Our Fatherland is famous for them.
Just as it is impossible to imagine the earth without a sower, life without bread, a person without a homeland, so it is impossible to imagine the great Russian language without proverbs and sayings.
13:1296 13:1301Russian proverbs about the word
13:1360Think first, then speak.
Do not be brave with words, but show with deeds.
Talk less - do more.
The word is not a sparrow, it will fly out - you will not catch it.
To speak without thinking, to shoot without aiming.
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If you want to fight fate
If you are looking for the joy of a flower garden,
If you need solid support
Learn Russian!
He is your mentor - great, mighty,
He is a translator, he is a conductor,
If you storm steep knowledge,
Learn Russian!
The Russian word lives on the pages
The world of inspiring Pushkin's books.
The Russian word is freedom lightning,
Learn Russian!
Gorky's vigilance, Tolstoy's boundlessness,
Pushkin's lyrics are a pure spring,
Shines with specularity Russian word -
Learn Russian!
On our planet people live with different color skins, with different histories, different customs and traditions, and they speak different languages.Each nation protects its language, its speech - this is its culture.
14:1787Ushinsky noted:“When the language disappears, there are no more people!”
14:117 14:122Our beautiful language
Rich and resonant.
That powerful and passionate
It's softly melodious.
It also has a smile.
And accuracy, and affection.
Written by him
And stories, and fairy tales -
magical pages,
Exciting books!
Love and keep
Our great language!
International Mother Language Day, proclaimed by the UNESCO General Conference on November 17, 1999, has been celebrated every year on February 21 since 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.
In turn, the UN General Assembly in its resolution declared 2008 the International Year of Languages. 2010 was proclaimed the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures.
The date for the Day was chosen to commemorate the events that took place in Dhaka (now the capital of Bangladesh) on February 21, 1952, when students demonstrating in defense of their native language Bengali, which they demanded to be recognized as one of the state languages of the country, were killed by police bullets. .
Languages are the most powerful tool for preserving and developing our material and spiritual heritage. UNESCO estimates that half of the world's approximately 6,000 languages may soon lose their last native speakers.
All steps to promote the spread of mother tongues serve not only to promote linguistic diversity and multilingual education, to develop a fuller acquaintance with linguistic and cultural traditions around the world, but also to strengthen solidarity based on mutual understanding, tolerance and dialogue.
February 21, 2003 on the occasion international day mother tongue UNESCO Director-General K. Matsuura said: “Why is so much attention paid to the mother tongue? Because languages constitute a unique expression of human creativity in all its diversity. As a tool for communication, perception and reflection, language also describes how we see the world and reflects the connection between past, present and future. Languages bear traces of chance encounters, various sources from which they were saturated, each according to its own separate history.
Native languages are unique in the way they leave an imprint on each person from the moment of birth, giving him a special vision of things that will never really disappear, despite the fact that a person subsequently masters many languages. Study of foreign language is a way to get acquainted with a different vision of the world, with other approaches.”
And every year, as part of the celebration of Mother Language Day in different countries there are various events dedicated to a specific theme and aimed at promoting respect, as well as the promotion and protection of all languages (especially languages that are on the verge of extinction), linguistic diversity and multilingualism. Thus, in different years, the Day was devoted to the following topics: the relationship between the native language and multilingualism, especially in education; Braille system and sign language; raising public awareness of linguistic and cultural traditions based on mutual understanding, tolerance and dialogue; protection of the intangible heritage of mankind and the preservation of cultural diversity; the role of the language taught in schools and others.
Mongolian is the language of the Mongols, the official language of Mongolia. The term can be used more broadly: for the Mongolian language of Mongolia and Inner Mongolia in China, for all the languages of the Mongolian group, in a historical context for such languages as the ancient common Mongolian and the old written Mongolian languages.
The language of the Mongols, the main population of Mongolia, as well as Inner Mongolia and the Russian Federation. It is often referred to as Khalkha-Mongolian or simply Khalkha by its main dialect.
The Khalkha-Mongolian dialect (or language) has a literary norm and the status of the state language in Mongolia. The number of speakers in it is about 2.3 million people. (1995). The Khalkha dialect is included in the central group of dialects of the Mongolian language. Along with it, the eastern and western groups also stand out. Differences between dialects are mainly phonetic.
As the national language of Mongolia began to take shape after the Mongolian People's Revolution (1921) on the basis of the Khalkha dialect. Since 1943 - writing based on the Cyrillic alphabet.
Khalkha-Mongolian, together with the language of the Mongolian script, is part of the Mongolian family of languages. This family is divided into the following groups:
- northern Mongolian languages: Buryat, Kalmyk, Ordos, Khamnigan, Oirat;
- southern Mongolian languages: Dagur, Shira-Yugur, Dongxiang, Baoan, Tu (Mongorian);
- Mughal stands apart in Afghanistan.
In their structure, these are agglutinative languages with elements of inflection. For the majority (except Kalmyk and Buryat), impersonal conjugation is characteristic. In the field of morphology, they are also characterized by the absence of a sharp line between inflection and word formation: for example, different case forms of the same word often function lexically as new words and allow secondary declension, the basis of which is not the primary stem, but the case form. Role possessive pronouns play special suffixes: personal and impersonal. The presence of predicative suffixes gives the impression that names can be conjugated. Parts of speech are poorly differentiated. The following parts of speech are distinguished: name, verb and invariable particles. The noun and adjective in most living languages and the language of writing are not differentiated morphologically and differ only in terms of syntax.
In the field of syntax, the position of the definition before the defined, the predicate, usually at the end of sentences, and the lack of agreement in the case of the definition and the defined, as well as different members of the sentence, is characteristic.
International Mother Language Day - February 21
International Mother Language Day, proclaimed by the UNESCO General Conference in November 1999, has been observed every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.
Languages are the most powerful tool for preserving and developing our material and spiritual heritage. According to UNESCO estimates, half of the world's 6,000 languages may soon lose their last native speakers.
All steps to promote the spread of mother tongues serve not only to promote linguistic diversity and multilingual education, to develop a fuller acquaintance with linguistic and cultural traditions around the world, but also to strengthen solidarity based on mutual understanding, tolerance and dialogue.
Here is what UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura says about this holiday: “Celebrating International Mother Language Day... we pay tribute to the myriad of languages existing in the world, the cultures that they reflect, the creative charge that their development and forms of expression give people . On International Mother Language Day, all languages are recognized as equal because each of them fulfills the destiny of man in a unique way and each represents a living heritage that we should protect.”
Recognition and respect for all languages is the key to keeping the peace. Each language is unique. It has its own expressions that reflect the mentality and customs of the people. Like our name, we acquire our mother tongue from our mother during childhood. It forms our consciousness, impregnates it with the culture embedded in it.
Even though it is very difficult to penetrate deeply into the culture of another language, knowledge of languages broadens our horizons and opens up a diverse world before us. Getting to know people who speak other languages makes it possible to learn about our differences, and can dispel fears of the world that give rise to national strife. Make thinking more free.
If we speak only one language, part of our brain develops less, our creativity loses a lot. There are about 300 words that have exactly the same meaning in all languages: I, you, we, who, what, no, everything, one, two, big, long, small, woman, man, eat, see, hear, sun , moon, etc.
But if we take other words, for example, the word patience in Chinese (zhen), then it also means tolerance, patience ...
If in French je t "aime (I love you) you can say to a friend, child, lover, then this is unthinkable for other languages, for example, for English or Italian in which there are different words to denote the concept of "love".
One example. There are about 1600 languages and dialects in India, the situation is very complicated. The constitution guarantees all citizens the right to "keep" their languages, and all ethnic and religious minorities have the right to govern educational institutions. In fact, there is a linguistic hierarchy. Smaller languages may disappear, being replaced by English, which is perceived as a neutral language, a symbol of modernity and good social status.
Every age needs a mother tongue...
(Kenzheev Bakhyt)
Every age needs a mother tongue
to every heart, tree and knife
need a native language of purity tears -
so I will say and keep my word.
So I will say and silently, barefoot, I will pass
barren, cloudy country,
to blame your work
native language that has become a cumbersome stone.
From the street, the disabled person pressed his ear to the glass.
Every throat hurts, every eye waters,
if the century decays, and its spring
dries up without comforting us.
Stones will erase the sole, youth will be taken away,
so that a singing reed may grow out of the water,
so that in old age he could justify his work
stonecutter with insatiable lace.
Well - tearing off the crust from compressed lips,
overcoming lies, and an abscess in the ears,
to every sky - if the age is not loved -
speak out, repeating the forgotten
In the native language, because again
in every living dream is deep,
to merge hate and love
in your narrow pupil into a golden ball.
About mother tongue
(Galina Purga)
Mind and heart, your language is a guide,
Without it, you will end up in a dead end.
Your language is your life, your dreams,
You are not you without him.
Your tongue is like a mother
Which cannot be humiliated, not insulted.
You should thank him, friend.
Because you know how to speak correctly.
Mother tongue is your soul, your world, your beam,
Love him for being powerful.
Your language is a shield, your communication
Don't disrespect him.
Don't let someone else label your native language.
Your legacy is your land and your language
And do not let the ignorant distort it,
Don't forget about this, my friend.
Native Russian
I will not fight with my brother for the language,
We'd better have more vodka and fresh snacks.
But something for the first time quietly happy mother,
When she opened her eyes, she told me in Russian.
And so with mother's milk poured into my blood
That very language is like a gift from the messenger ancestors.
Today I hear the cry of a countryman again and again
The fact that my native language is only the lot of strangers.
When the carousel stops spinning,
And I'll lie down in a cold hole behind the street slope,
They will drive my spirit from Ukrainian unfortunate lands
For the fact that during his lifetime he wrote his lines in Russian.
Native language
Everyone is into Arabic
everyone was drawn to the east,
Spanish, Polish, Italian,
to the west the train carried everyone away
How easy it is to drop everything and hide
and tell us all later
about the fact that happiness is abroad,
and laugh at your
Now native already adverbs,
now in a completely different country,
I'm happy for them, but life is not eternal,
and only the native language is in the soul
Native language
(Valery Bryusov)
My faithful friend! My enemy is insidious!
My king! My slave! Native language!
My poems are like altar smoke!
How fierce is my cry!
You gave wings to a crazy dream,
You wrapped your dream in fetters.
Saved me in the hours of impotence
And crushed with excess strength.
How often in the mystery of strange sounds
And in the hidden sense of words
I found the tune of the unexpected,
Poems that took possession of me!
But often, joy exhausted
Ile quiet intoxicated with longing,
I waited in vain to be in tune
With a trembling soul - your echo!
You wait like a giant.
I bow before you.
And yet I won't stop fighting
I am like Israel with a deity!
There is no limit to my perseverance.
You are in eternity, I am in short days,
But still, as a magician, submit to me,
Or turn the madman to dust!
Your wealth, by inheritance,
I, impudent, demand myself.
I'm calling, you answer
I'm coming - you be ready to fight!
But, defeated or winner,
I will fall down before you:
You are my avenger, you are my savior
Your world is forever my abode,
Your voice is the sky above me!
Native language
(Pavlova Lina)
I thank the past eras
Scientists and poets and people
For the language that you gave me
And saved in the most terrible year!
I thank my mother for reading to me
And, revealing the meaning of each fairy tale,
She corrected childhood mistakes
And awakened to life my thought.
I thank Kuprin, Tolstoy,
Turgenev and Chekhov always,
That my native language was enriched
And they supported me in difficult times.
And if you attack, in the years of hard times,
I haven't sunk to the bottom yet.
And if you didn’t close your heart to people,
The merit of the book is that it is my destiny!
And often without even bread,
I opened with a weak hand
Your friends, guides,
And time carried me to another world.
Native speech, beloved native language,
We draw strength from you in all ages.
You, our treasure, our strength,
And you play a role in the life of the lighthouse!
Native language, tell us the words...
Native language, tell us the words:
How to protect you, where to draw strength?
Not the inglorious nickname "Mordva",
But the name "Erzya" is proud to be worn.
To be a forerunner is an enviable fate,
Erzya "ista" breathes the Russianness of truths.
But did you know that you will be forced out
From the Volga expanse of the Fatherland?!
In the family of living Russian languages
You are the only one left among the few.
We are at the mounds of our forefathers
Let's resume the ritual of strict traditions.
Let the sacred shtAtol keep the fire,
Only with Erzyan Mastor the spirit and strength grow stronger.
Kurgan hills - bow to the ground,
So that the memory of our ancestors spoke in us.
Istya (erz.) - yes
Erzyan Shtatol - a sacred candle, a symbol of hope, unification and will of the Erzya people
Erzyan Mastor - land of Erzya
