Search+For+My+Mother+Tongue

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 * Search For My Mother Tongue**

You ask me what I mean by saying I have lost my tongue. I ask you, what would you do if you had two tongues in your mouth, and lost the first one, the mother tongue, and could not really know the other, the foreign tongue.

You could not use them both together even if you thought that way. And if you lived in a place you had to speak a foreign tongue, your mother tongue would rot, rot and die in your mouth until you had to spit it out. I thought I spit it out but overnight while I dream,

મ" હ$%& ' આ)બી ,ભ આ)બી ભાષા (munay hutoo kay aakhee jeebh aakhee bhasha) મ0 1&કી નાબી 4 (may thoonky nakhi chay) પર&% રા7 8વ:ન;મ; મારી ભાષા પાછી આ= 4 (parantoo rattray svupnama mari bhasha pachi aavay chay) >લની @મ મારી ભાષા મારી ,ભ (foolnee jaim mari bhasha nmari jeebh) મોઢામ; બીC 4 (modhama kheelay chay) >લની @મ મારી ભાષા મારી ,ભ (fullnee jaim mari bhasha mari jeebh) મોઢામ; પા' 4 (modhama pakay chay)

(Translation: I thought my whole tongue is my language, I spat it out, But again at night it comes back in my dreams, My language, my tongue blossoms like a flower in my mouth, My language my tongue ripens like a fruit in my mouth.)

it grows back, a stump of a shoot grows longer, grows moist, grows strong veins, it ties the other tongue in knots, the bud opens, the bud opens in my mouth, it pushes the other tongue aside. Everytime I think I've forgotten, I think I've lost the mother tongue, it blossoms out of my mouth.

By Sujata Bhatt [] - a website providing another video of the poem and lots of information about the language forms and features used.