Indigenous languages in Bangladesh & bilingualism: a qualitative study
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2023.
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10361-237152024-08-11T21:04:14Z Indigenous languages in Bangladesh & bilingualism: a qualitative study Sumayra, Nusrat Amin, Md Al Department of English and Humanities, Brac University Indigenous language Ethnic language Mother tongue Bangla language Tribal language Communication and culture--Bangladesh Indigenous peoples--Bangladesh Language acquisition Bilingualism Bangladesh--Languages Ethnology--Bangladesh Multicultural education--Bangladesh This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2023. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Bangladesh is a country of various cultures. People from different cultures reside in Bangladesh. Language is one of the integral parts of culture. Without language a person would be incomplete. There are around forty-two established languages in our motherland. Among these languages, thirty-six languages are spoken by ethnic minority groups who are also known as indigenous people. The other six languages are known as non-ethnic minority languages. This study explores Bangladeshi Indigenous Language and Bilingualism. People who can speak more than one language equally are known as bilingual. Its nature is interrelated with various fields such as anthropology, psychology, linguistics, and the field of communication. As bilingualism is a major part of my thesis paper, I explored bilingual people and their languages. Indigenous people are counted as bilingual because they can speak in two languages, and in this case one is their mother tongue (L1) and another is Bangla (L2). My focus was on how bilingual people acquire two languages at the same time, how proficient they are between L1 and L2 and why they are detached from their mother tongue. The qualitative method is considered to be the most suitable method for this study as I tried to understand the phenomena in details by providing a rich detail. For this research, I interviewed nine indigenous people who belong to different indigenous tribes. Among my participants, some of them are Garo, Chakma, Marma, Hajong etc. Mostly are universities students, few of them are service holders. The output I have finally gotten is that most of my participants are almost detached from their mother tongue because of pursuing education in Bangla and English. Yet, they have a desire to work on their mother tongue so that their mother tongue can be sustained, spread and known worldwide. Because their languages are not used much outside their communities, their languages are not valued in different aspects of lives. Therefore, these languages may be extinct in the future unless proper steps are taken to revive these languages. They want the government of Bangladesh to take initiative to protect their local language otherwise the next indigenous generation will probably lose their ancestors' mother tongue. Nusrat Sumayra B.A. in English 2024-08-11T09:54:44Z 2024-08-11T09:54:44Z ©2023 2023-06 Thesis ID 18103075 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/23715 en Brac University theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 50 pages application/pdf Brac University |
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This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2023. |
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