{"id":225306,"date":"2021-02-21T12:54:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T12:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2021\/02\/21\/international-mother-language-day-celebrated-at-chungtia\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T12:54:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T12:54:50","slug":"international-mother-language-day-celebrated-at-chungtia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/02\/21\/international-mother-language-day-celebrated-at-chungtia\/","title":{"rendered":"International Mother Language Day celebrated at Chungtia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/http:\/\/new.nagalandpost.com\/cms\/gall_content\/no_images_650x.jpg><\/p>\n<p>As per the directive of the Ao Baptist Church Council (ABAM) to all its affiliates to commemorate the International Mother Language Day, the Child Education Department of Chungtia Baptist Church (CBC) held a special programme on Sunday with Aso Imsong, writer and general secretary of Ongpangkong Mungdang as the main speaker.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The programme was held on the theme &lsquo;Tetsu oshi ajanga kin ka longjemdaktsur&rsquo; (A nation is unified by mother language). Hundreds of young children and youths, in their traditional attire, from the Chungtia Baptist Church and also from the nearby Sabangya Baptist Church attended the special programme.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The main speaker, Aso Imsong, while speaking at the programme, stressed on the importance of mother language in the modern Naga society.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>While appreciating the ABAM for giving much importance to promotion and preservation of the mother language, Imsong hoped that the commemoration of such an important day by the church would be the starting point towards the development of Ao language in the days to come.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>He said that the church has a very important role to play in promoting the native language as the church is one place where the mother language is intensively used to communicate to the congregation. Besides, he also pointed out that the involvement of the church in printing and publishing of periodicals and magazines was a great medium to preserve and encourage the usage of mother language in day to day life.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>He also encouraged the village councils and&nbsp; student unions to encourage the youngsters to learn proper Ao vocabulary, speak frequently in mother tongue and also try to write in vernacular language among native speakers.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The programme was led by Walang while CBC Associate Pastor Youth, Kathyla invoked God&rsquo;s blessings. Chungtia village council member, I. Wati Jamir and CBC Deacon L. Tali exhorted the congregation and highlighted on the importance of why the younger generation should not ignore the mother language.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Presentation of special cultural songs, a short skit, narration of Ao poems, folktales by young children marked the programme attended by a host of parents. CBC associate pastor CED delivered the vote of thanks.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Mother Language Day celebrated at Chungtia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}