5. Final Consequence of Destruction of Language and Script
The people are supposed to be die and the caste is supposed to have been eliminated from root, if language and script are destroyed. For instance, if a person from one caste forgets one's language and culture and assimilates other's language and culture, this person has already become of another caste. Furthermore this person has already adopted habits fooding and clothing of others as well. As such person has to follow language, culture, tradition, speaking habits of other caste; identity, symbols, signs, emblems of previous caste don't occur in the transformed caste. So religion, language, script, culture, tradition are the proof to be different caste and identity.
So, this is taken as main reason. Linguists opine that mother tongue is the main proof of a caste to claim its rights. Once it is lost, the caste and human also get lost. The history also gets destroyed and there won't be any proof of identity of that person and caste.
Linguists take language as invaluable arsenal of history of human and mother tongue is identity indicator of a caste and pillar of memory. Once identity indicator of a caste gets destroyed the end of the people of that community also arrive soon. It is also heard to be saying a person without mother tongue is like a human without 'atman' (the soul). So Scholars and linguists have great concern in the receding trend of mother tongue to extinction. Australian author Kabit Malaufan's view becomes worth mentioning here. He notices that the language he is speaking is slowing going away from the lips and tongue of the local speakers. Pondering on this topic creates great fear in him says writer Kabid. He has shared his feeling as graver then one’s own death. A person without mother tongue and culture is like an orphan.
Similarly, another scholar has also shared his feeling regarding lose of language and culture. To talk about history of ‘Khoikhoi’ community of ‘Menta’ caste of Africa, Hendrikastromen has said that being unable to speak one’s mother tongue creates a feeling of growing up sucking breast of an unknown woman.
When we talk about Sherpa community, if language, culture, script and tradition get destroyed, Sherpa community will also die. There won’t be another worse scenario then this. It would be the worst scenario not only to Sherpa but also global community. It is because the culture of Sherpa has benefitted to lots of people across the globe.
Further loss of a language and a script hampers to the particular caste, state and whole human community equally. This point has further been supported by experts meet of United Nations. In the meeting of United Nations Language Federation in Canada in 1992, linguists and scholars unanimously concluded that loss of a mother tongue is unrecoverable loss to whole human.
6. In this grave situation it comes to be our great concern to protect and preserve our culture and language. There are two ways we can do to protect and preserve our language. They are:
a. When to Protect Language?
b. How to protect language?