When is International Mother Language Day?
Tuesday February 21stInternational Mother Language Day, February 21st, raises the bar for linguistic and cultural diversity every year. It's also a day to promote multilingualism..
Some people speak in a mother language. Someone speaks the first language that someone speaks. The mother language of a person helps to identify a person's identity. A person's mother language helps to identify a person's identity. Some people think of their mother language as a thing of great beauty. This is especially true if they live in an area where their mother language is not spoken. For them, their mother language is a way to remain connected to their homeland and their culture. A mother's language is sadly absent every two weeks, and a mother's language is lost every two weeks. When this happens, an entire cultural heritage is lost along with it..
Out of the world's 6,000 languages, 43 percent of which are endangered. In the future, these endangered languages will become extinct. Languages are also endangered for a variety of reasons. Any languages simply get replaced by ones that are more widely spoken. Other languages aren't being taught by new generations of children. There are hundreds of languages today that have only one native speaker still living. When that individual dies, their language will also die.
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