2023 celebrations: International Mother Language Day Theme
Nelson Mandela once said, ‘If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
‘The 24th edition of International Mother Language Day will focus on the theme ‘multilingual education – a necessity to transform education’.
Multilingual education based on mother-tongue facilitates access to and inclusion in learning for population groups that speak non-dominant languages, languages of minority groups and indigenous languages.
A short History of the International Mother Language Day of the 21st February, 1952
This day is honored for the martyrs of the language movement on 21st February 1952. After the movement, Bangla got the distinction of being the state language of the previous East Pakistan, the present Bangladesh. The language movement was made on the solidarity to save the honors to talk and write in somebody’s first language as well as the Mother Tongue.
Recognition of International Mother Language Day
After around 50 years of movement and demands raised by the fighters and Bengali speaking peoples the UNNESCO recognized The day of International Mother Language Day has been commended starting around 2000 to make familiarity with multilingualism and harmony around the world.
How many countries celebrate International Mother Language Day ?
More than 7 countries celebrate International Mother Language Day on the 21st February.
It supports every one of the occasions connecting with the International Mother Language Day which head quarter situated in Paris. The first and traditional occasion is the ‘Probhat Feri” in Bangladesh and India on the 21st February. The other festival and occasions of the day incorporate conversation about the significance of the day, public, global and common honor introducing. Bangladesh is the home of the Bengali Language and the day is seen all around the country. The day is additionally celebrated across the world, including nations like India, Canada, Russia, Philippines, Chile, Egypt and so forth.
Importance of International Mother Language Day
There are around 6,500 dialects on the planet, however did you had any idea that a language vanishes and bites the dust like clockwork? International Mother Language Day on 21 February, is a day to celebrate and safeguard every one of the dialects of the world.
Multilingual and multicultural social orders exist through their dialects which send and save conventional information and societies in a reasonable manner.
Universally 40% of the populace doesn’t approach schooling in a language they talk or comprehend and progress is being made in multilingual training with developing comprehension of its significance, especially in early tutoring, and greater obligation to its advancement in open life.
This is likewise the point of this Global Day: commending these approaches to communicating the world in its variety, focusing on the protection of the variety of dialects as a typical legacy, and working for quality training – in first languages – for all.
Multilingual training in view of native language works with admittance to and consideration in learning for populace bunches that communicate in non-prevailing dialects, dialects of minority gatherings and native dialects.
Contribution Bangladesh & Bengali speaking peoples on International Mother Language Day
We celebrate International Mother Language Day today in a festive mode but the only bloodshed brought this day. A group of students sought to storm into the building as a part of the language movement, then Pakistani police opened fire and killed a number of students, including Abdus Salam, Rafiq Uddin Ahmed, Shafiur Rahman, Abul Barkat and Abdul Jabbar. The Government reported that 29 people killed in that day.
In India, on 19th May 1961 at Silchar railway station in which 11 Bengalis were killed by Assam police for demanding Bengali Language i.e they were Sylheti speaking peoples.
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