New Delhi: Urging people to speak in their mother tongue Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Tuesday that ‘Amma’ or ‘Ammi’ comes from the heart while ‘Mommy’ comes from the lips.
Addressing a gathering at an event held here to commemorate the birth centenary of music legend M.S. Subbulakshmi, Mr Naidu asked people not to forget their own language but said it was fine to talk in English when speaking to a foreigner.
“We now use English language to address a mother — mommy or daddy, but ‘Amma’, such a beautiful language, for a mother, comes from the heart and also ‘Ammi’, in Urdu, that comes from the heart too, while mommy comes from the lips. So, Hindi, Sanskrit or Urdu or Telugu, we should always speak in our mother’s tongue,” Mr Naidu said.
Incidentally, Mr Naidu, who has served as a Union minister in the Modi government before becoming the Vice-President, had earlier this year said it was important to learn the ‘Rashtra Bhasha’ Hindi as most people in the country speak that language.
