International Mother Language Day is being celebrated on February 21, 2019.
About:
Observance:
The day is observed on the 21st of February every year to preserve and promote linguistic diversity and promoting mother tongue-based multilingual education.
The declaration came up in tribute to the Language Movement done by the Bangladeshis (the then East Pakistanis). In Bangladesh the 21 February is the anniversary of the day when Bangladeshis fought for recognition for the Bangla language.
Bodies involved: UNESCO has been celebrating International Mother Language Day since 2000.
Theme: Since 2019 is also the International Year of Indigenous Languages, the theme of this year’s Mother Language Day is “Indigenous Languages as a factor in development, peace and reconciliation”.
Need to preserve indigenous languages:
At least 43 % of the estimated 6000 languages spoken in the world are endangered. According to UN data, a language disappears every two weeks taking with it an entire cultural and intellectual heritage.
Only a few hundred languages have genuinely been given a place in education systems and the public domain.
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