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February 21, UN International Day of Mother Language

UNSECO adopted this day as the International Day of Mother language which was also endorsed by the UN General Assembly in 2002.

Geneva, 21 February 2023 (GNP): Each year, February 2i is celebrated as the International Day of Mother Languages to promote multiculturalism and multilingualism for a peaceful world. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) officially approved the 21st of February of each year to be celebrated as International Mother Language Day.

UNESCO upon the request of the Government of Bangladesh marked this day as an International Mother Language Day for societies that ate culturally and linguistically diversified to be peaceful and sustainable.

This day honors those persons who sacrificed their lives for their language in Bangladesh on February 21, 1952. Even before the acceptance of UNESCO as the International Day of Mother Language, February 21 was observed as the Matri Bhasha Diwas, the day of our mother tongue, throughout Bangladesh to commemorate the sacrifices of those people in 1952.

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In 2002 UN General Assembly in its declaration supported an international day of languages and asked the member states to take steps for the development and protection of all languages either spoken or written in their geographical boundaries as the most effective and positive contributing tool for the growth of human society. On this occasion of International Day of Mother Language, UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Fernand de Varennes, said that languages are the common heritage of all humanity, and they always played a positive interconnecting role throughout human history among various regions and races.  Thus guaranteeing peace and harmony in human lives. An inclusive national society would give ample space to all languages spoken and written in its boundaries, with no racial, religious or other differentiation between them.

He further added that any exclusion or relegation of any minority or its language may not only cause immediate tension in any state, but its repercussions are too long and deep for any society to bear.

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