About Mother Language
What is Mother Language Day?
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Mother Language Day is meant to be a day to celebrate mother tongues or mother languages. It's meant to be a reminder of the rich existance of linguistic and cultural diversity in our civilization. It's a chance for us to celebrate our own and everyone else's heritage and culture, to bring people of all nations closer together.
International Mother Language Day is celebrated annually on February 21st all over the world. It was proclaimed by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in November 1999. The date (February 21) represents a day in 1952, where students in Dhaka, Bangladesh were demonstrating for the recognition of their language, and were shot and killed by police.
