In Tibetan settlements, you will find them still speaking Tibetan. Uprooted from their home, living in an alien land, they speak to each other in the same tongue they once spoke on the Roof of the World.
Our story is a whole different one. Going back in time, I see my mother, all 16 years old, accompanying my father to Mussoorie. The only language she knew was Garhwali. Of course, over the years, she did pick up a smattering of Hindi. Fortunately, she spoke to me in Garhwali (a language that now comes to me easily). I have no idea why my other siblings (five of them) had to make do with cobbled-together Hindi.
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