Every 14 days one language dies

Throughout human history, the languages of powerful groups have spread while the languages of smaller cultures have become extinct. As big languages spread, children whose parents speak a small language often grow up learning the dominant language. Depending on attitudes toward the ancestral language, those children or their children may never learn the smaller language, or they may forget it as it falls out of use. This has occurred throughout human history, but the rate of language disappearance has accelerated dramatically in recent years. Read more here about the study conducted by National Geographic.

Surprisingly the study did not list India among the endangered language regions, considering the fact that India once upon a time flourished with hundreds of more languages and thousands of more dialects. This makes me worried that I may not be able to pass on my language to my kids and through which the rich oral culture it embodies. Telugu may be one of the dominant languages and not endangered per the study, but it may soon be forgotten and less spoken by the onslaught of English.

Am I not hypocritical blogging here in English? Anyway let me at least remind myself of the sayings of two great Telugu persons ever born - SriKrishna DevaRaya and Srinadha Kavi about my mother tongue and feel good about it.