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March 7, 2021
When it comes to early education, the mother tongues of the various regions of Pakistan should be adopted
February 21 is the international day of the mother tongue. The mother is always the first one to talk to a newborn. This is true for all species and especially for humans. Before the advances in modern travel, language was always localised to small areas. Thus, a very large number of local or indigenous languages evolved all over the inhabited world. Knowledge of another language was very rare, except for frequent travellers or immigrants. Long before the evolution of written script, pictographic scripts were a sort of universal language. Even after the evolution of writing, and later alphabets, dialects were always local.