United Nations wished Mother’s Language day to the world and stated that Cultural and language diversity are the keys for sustainable and peaceful societies.
The idea to celebrate International Mother Language Day was first celebrated, and Bangladesh took the initiative, but UNESCO approved it in the extraordinary General Assembly in 1999, and they even observed throughout the world since 2000.
UNESCO believes that the value of the cultural and linguistic is very diverse for sustainable societies. Its mandate for peace works to preserve the differences in cultures and languages that foster tolerance and respect for others.
As more and more languages disappear in society somehow, mother languages are suffering. Worldwide 40 percent of the population is suffering, and even they do not have access to an education in a language, they can understand better.
Nevertheless, improvement is being made in mother tongue-based multilingual education with the increasing understanding, mainly in early schooling, also ore dedication to its development in public life.
Multilingual and multicultural societies live through their languages that transmit and preserve traditional knowledge and cultures sustainably.
DIRECTOR-GENERAL GAVE MESSAGE:
“Technology can provide society with the new tools for protecting linguistic diversity. Such tools, for example, reduce their spread and analysis and allow us to record and preserve languages that sometimes exist in the oral form. Put, they make local dialects and shared heritage. Moreover, the internet posed a risk of language uniformization. We must also be well aware of the technological progress and will serve the plurilingism only as long as we make an effort to make sure that it does.”
They even made a theme of 2022 International Mother Language Day, with the use of technology for multilingual learning: Challenges and opportunities,” and they also discussed the role of technology to advance multilingual education and support the development of teaching and learning for all.
The theme of the 2022 International Mother Language Day, UNESCO contains a webinar on 21 February from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, Paris time) especially to celebrate Mother Language Day 2022.
