PM Modi urges people to speak their mother tongue with pride

Feb 27, 2022

New Delhi, Feb 27 (ANI): Days after International Mother Language Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 27 said that people in the country should speak their mother tongue with pride. The Prime Minister highlighted that Tamil is one of the oldest languages in the world. He pointed out that, in 2019, Hindi was the third most spoken language in the world. "It is our mother tongue; we should speak it with pride. And, our India is so rich in terms of languages that it just cannot be compared. The biggest beauty of our languages is that from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, from Kutch to Kohima, hundreds of languages, thousands of dialects which are different from each other but are mutually integrated. many languages - one expression. For centuries," said the Prime Minister, while addressing the 86th episode of ‘Mann Ki Baat’.