HAPPY "INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY" 21 - 02-2018
International Mother Language Day (IMLD) is a worldwide annual observance held in 21 february to promote awareness of languistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. First announced by UNESCO onb17 november 1999, it wasformally recognised by the United Nations Generals Assembly in its resolution establishing 2008 as the International year of Languages. It alsoremembers events such as the killing of four students on 21 February 2952, because they campaigned to officially use their mother language Bengali, in Bangladesh. This students are honored by the encouragement of multiculturalism and the promotion of protective measures for endangered languages.
According to UNESCO, about 2,500 languages and thus their cultures are currently at risk of extinction within a few generations.
Mother languages are the most powerful instruments of preserving and developing our tangible and intangible heritage. All moves to promote the dissemination of mother tongues will serve not only to encourage diversity and multilingual education but also to develop fuller awareness of linguistic and cultural traditions throughout the world and to inspire solidarity based on understanding, tolerance and dialogue.
Languages, with their complex implications for identity, communication, social integration, education and development, are of strategic importance for people and planet. Yet, due to globalization processes, they are increasingly under threat, or disappearing altogether. When languages fade, so does the world's rich tapestry of cultural diversity. Opportunities, traditions, memory, unique modes of thinking and expression - valuable resources for ensuring a better - are also lost.
More than 50% of the approx. 7,000 languages spoken in the world are likely to die out within a few generations, and 96% of these languages are spiken by a mere 4% of the world's populatin. Inly a few hundred languages have genuinely been given pride of place in education systems and the public domain, and less than a hundred are used in the digital world.
IN THE WORDS OF NENSON MANDELA,
"If you talk to a man in a languages he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart".
According to UNESCO, about 2,500 languages and thus their cultures are currently at risk of extinction within a few generations.
Mother languages are the most powerful instruments of preserving and developing our tangible and intangible heritage. All moves to promote the dissemination of mother tongues will serve not only to encourage diversity and multilingual education but also to develop fuller awareness of linguistic and cultural traditions throughout the world and to inspire solidarity based on understanding, tolerance and dialogue.
Languages, with their complex implications for identity, communication, social integration, education and development, are of strategic importance for people and planet. Yet, due to globalization processes, they are increasingly under threat, or disappearing altogether. When languages fade, so does the world's rich tapestry of cultural diversity. Opportunities, traditions, memory, unique modes of thinking and expression - valuable resources for ensuring a better - are also lost.
More than 50% of the approx. 7,000 languages spoken in the world are likely to die out within a few generations, and 96% of these languages are spiken by a mere 4% of the world's populatin. Inly a few hundred languages have genuinely been given pride of place in education systems and the public domain, and less than a hundred are used in the digital world.
IN THE WORDS OF NENSON MANDELA,
"If you talk to a man in a languages he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart".
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