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will be an altogether new form of research in the field of languages. All Indian communities have to
work to save their culture.

To save our cultural heritage, Indian languages need to be saved; first in India and then outside
India. With the help of ICT experts, some devices have to be found out which will help to protect
at least 22 Indian languages. As per Articles 344 (1) and 351 of the Indian Constitution, the eighth
schedule includes the recognition of 22 languages. There are many ‘apps’ in almost all the languages
but these are mainly for business advertisements or to provide information about the cine-industry.
They are not geared to protect and preserve cultural specifications. Therefore, such devices, blogs, and
apps, and many more have to be created; this will be a new and necessary field in language research.
Some people believe that change is the law of nature and as in other fields, it will affect language
and culture as well. Indeed, one or two persons will not be able to stop the changes but Manu, the
first and foremost man, because of whom the entire human race is called Manava, also tried to save
or better to say to revive the human race and human activities at the time of dissolution (complete
annihilation of human culture). It will not be that difficult to raise the number of speakers or knowers
of our vernacular languages and protect the regional cultures. Society is not interested in knowing
the theories or intricacies of grammar or changes in the nuances of meanings and interpretation but
will perhaps be interested in the kind of research to preserve languages in essence. This attitude of the
society of ignoring the power of the spoken and written is not a new trend although it has become
more serious now. Here is an interesting narration from an old Sanskrit text. Patanjali, the renowned
grammarian of Sanskrit and author of Mahabhashya writes his experience about society’s treatment
to the grammarian and its attitude about word usage. He says, if a person wants to use an earthen
pot to cook food, he will go to the potter and will ask him to make an appropriate pot. He will also
give specifications for that pot. If the pot is not ready on time he will visit the potter’s house again
and request him to make it urgently because he cannot do without that pot. However, people do not
approach the grammarian and request him to coin a word for the specific meaning which they want
to convey (Shastri, 1947). They manage with the words that they have. They then adjust their thoughts
within their limited vocabulary, they crop the sentences, abridge the contents but do not think of
creating a new word or words to express explicitly the intended meaning. This is the experience of
school teachers about almost all children in school while writing essays in a language other than
their mother tongue. This means that if the convincing capacity of the language is ignored and if
the vocabulary is limited, then the child fails to convey his or her thoughts, and will naturally fail to
convince the listener. The language researcher has to be aware of all such dangers.

Learning a Foreign Language

In the current scenario of language learning in India, students are taking interest in learning foreign
languages such as Japanese, Chinese, French, Spanish, German, among others although they are
ignoring the study of Indian languages. The simple reason is the market connection of these foreign
languages. Globalization has created a great need for staff in the workforce who can communicate
in multiple languages. Common languages are used in areas such as trade, tourism, international
relations, technology, media, and science but there is a country-specific use also. Whatever may be
the reason, their acquaintance with these foreign languages will open new vistas of a comparative
study of these languages with Indian languages. A piece of information can be provided here which
is perhaps unknown to many of the researchers in the field of language. As per Duncan Charters
(Charters, 2015), Esperanto, the most widely used international auxiliary language, was founded
by L.L. Zamenhof, a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist, in 1887, aimed to eliminate language barriers
in international contacts. Esperanto is an artificial language created based on the Indo-European

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