Language is the soul of the people

On February 18, 2023, the Rostov Regional Special Library for the Blind hosted a thematic evening “Language is the Soul of the People”, dedicated to the International Mother Tongue Day, within the framework of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. Russia is a large and multinational country. Any person is alive as long as his memory is alive. In turn, the people are alive as long as people know their native language. As long as the language is alive in the mouths of the people, so long is the people alive. The native language is the character of the people, their memory, history and culture, the heritage of the people, their soul.
The statistics provided showed that more than 174 languages are spoken in Russia (for comparison, the peoples of Europe speak 120 languages), examples illustrated the different phonetic sound of familiar words and the semantic diversity of adverbs and dialects in Russia, after which we talked about the paradoxes and incidents of the Russian language, understandable to its native speakers, but challenging difficulties at the semantic level for foreigners (“Behind the sandy spit, the lop-eared scythe fell under the sharp scythe of a woman with a scythe.”