{"id":1366,"date":"2026-03-30T00:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2026-03-30T00:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:21:11","slug":"i-didnt-realise-i-still-had-my-mother-tongue-in-me-until-i-spoke-urdu-in-my-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"I didn\u2019t realise I still had my mother tongue in me \u2013 until I spoke Urdu in my sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/mar\/24\/urdu-language-mother-tongue-family\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"I didn\u2019t realise I still had my mother tongue in me \u2013 until I spoke Urdu in my sleep | Saman Shad\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3dda827f62a916fa1b71cdf61a6e8f4b46e6c737\/285_0_3533_2828\/master\/3533.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&amp;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&amp;overlay-width=100p&amp;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctb3BpbmlvbnMucG5n&amp;enable=upscale&amp;s=778f16a3953d55fff0edf9b85edb5917\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.theguardian.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">I didn\u2019t realise I still had my mother tongue in me \u2013 until I spoke Urdu in my sleep | Saman Shad<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">There was something instinctive about it, like a current pulling me back towards the language of my parents and grandparents<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}