International Mother Language day // Global mother Language Day ................. @21th February Whole over the World

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Global mother Language Day // IMLD is a international annual observance hung on 21 February to sell recognition of linguistic and cultural diversity and promote multilingualism. First introduced by UNESCO on 17 November 1999, it changed into officially diagnosed by using the United nations trendy meeting in a decision organizing 2008 because the worldwide yr of Languages

History

International Mother Language day has been found yearly for the reason that 2000[4] to promote peace and multilingualism round the arena and to guard all mother languages. it's miles discovered on February 21 to recognize the 1952 Bengali Language movement in Bangladesh.

The day became proclaimed by way of the overall conference of the United international locations academic, clinical and Cultural corporation (UNESCO) in November 1999 (30C/62). In its decision A/RES/sixty one/266, the United countries fashionable assembly called on its member states "to sell the upkeep and safety of all languages used by people of the arena" on sixteen may additionally 2009.[5] within the decision, the general assembly proclaimed 2008 because the global yr of Languages to sell cohesion in diversity and global expertise through multilingualism and multiculturalism. The decision become counseled by using Rafiqul Islam, a Bengali residing in Vancouver, Canada. He wrote a letter to Kofi Annan on 9 January 1998 asking him to take a step to saving the arena's languages from extinction via maintaining an international mom Language Day. Rafiq proposed the date as 21 February to commemorate the 1952 killings in Dhaka during the Language motion.[citation needed

------------ Languages are the maximum powerful contraptions of preserving and growing our tangible and intangible heritage. All moves to promote the dissemination of mom tongues will serve no longer simplest to inspire linguistic variety and multilingual education but additionally to expand fuller cognizance of linguistic and cultural traditions during the world and to encourage harmony based on knowledge, tolerance and communicate.