The 21st February is the international mother language (Tongue) Day. It is celebrated on 21st February in the world-wide every year across the 198 countries in the world.
India was still is, even after its partition with Pakistan in 1947 A.D., a subcontinent. It has a population 1.3 billion people next to china in terms of its population and area etc. However, India is getting a great loss in the reduction of its population due to COVID-19 apidimic.
There are 1652 languages and dialects. Buts the constitution of India recognizes 18 mother languages specified in the 8th schedule to the constitution. They are Assamese- Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Sanskrit, Nepali and so on.
In India state languages are spoken such as Bengali is spoken in w.Bengal, Manipur is spoken in Manipur and Punjabi is spoken in Panjab and so on. But Hindi dominates all the Indian languages with English as its associate language and is understood by all sections of the Indian people. In India it is quite difficult to distinguish the number of mother tongues and as written above 1652 languages and dialects may perhaps considered as the number of mother tongues in India.
In Nepali context, the number of mother tongues were 93 with an unknown language in 2058 and the number of mothers tongues about 110( I forgot the exact number of mother tongues ) in 2068 respectively.
In Nepal‘s context some namely as many as 110 mother tongues may be taken as the number of mother tongues according to the castes they speak their own respective mother language in their daily lives such as magars speak magar language, Newars speak Newar language and Tamangs speak Tamang language.
We find the following in one‘s mother.
She is the guardion and teacher for her child/children. They speak and learn languages in their childhoods from their mother very easily. She teaches her child/children to the best of her ability till the school going age.
A child/children may be bad for their mother but their mother can never be bad for her children rather she is alwaya ready to forgive them for their wrong-doings committed by them.
The roles of a mother played or contributed to their child/children through-out her life can never be paid back to their mother by her sons/daughrers. The lesion taught to them by their mother in their early childhoods always remain fresh to run their daily activities through-out their lives.
The children who learnt the lessions in their early childhoods from their mothers can never forget in their own lives to run their activities through out their lives.