International Mother Language Day

 

International Mother Language Day      

        International Mother Language day is approved by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific & Culture Organisation) was held on 21^st February 1999. This day was celebrate as World Wide Annual observance on 21^st february every year to promote multilingualism , it was approved by UNSECO.

 

      The focuses on how language hold strategic impotance for people and can advance the process of educatiom and development.

       Bangladesh had first come up with the idea to celebrate International Mother Language Day on 21^st february 2000. UNESCO approved  general conference International Mother Language Day was celebrated on 21^st february, and it as been observed throughtout the world since then.

What is our mother tongue in India?

    According to the constitution of India stated the offical language of the union is Hindi. With the official use of english is continue for 15 years from 1947.

     In India there are more languages are spoken by as mother tongue. According to the census data, there are 19,500 language which are spoken by 10,000 or more people in India.

   The scheduled languagein India are mentioned as: Assamese, Bengli, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Konkani, Marathi, Manipuri, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili, and Dogri.

    International Mother Language day promotes the existence of multigualism in societies and aims to preserve traditional knowledge and cultures through sustaiable methods.

    According to the “UNITED NATIONS”,  an estimated 6000 languages are spoken in the world and around 43% of endangered. Only few hundred languages have been reognised in the educational system.

    Each year, this day is observed through a specific theme and the theme for 2022 is “Using Technology for multilingual learning: Challenge and Opportunitines.