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International Mother Language Day (500 words) |
 | Language is an arbitrary system of sounds and symbols which is used for many purposes by a group of people, chiefly to communicate with each other, to express cultural identity, to convey social relationships, and to provide a source of delight (for example, in literature). |
| Each language has a huge vocabulary available to meet the needs of its users - in the case of European languages, where scientific and technical vocabulary is very large, this reaches several hundred thousand words and phrases. |
| Languages are always in contact with each other, and affect each other in many ways, especially by borrowing words. |
| International Mother Language Day (458 words) |
| The background to the proclamation of the International Mother Language Day was a proposal from Bangladesh at the UNESCO General Conference in Paris on 17 November 1999 to declare 21 February as an international day on the ground that on this day many had sacrificed their lives for their mother tongue. |
| The Paris Conference was convinced that one of the most effective ways to promote and develop mother tongues was the establishment of an International Mother Language Day throughout the world with a view to organizing various activities in the member states and a language exhibition at UNESCO Headquarters on the same day. |
| Diversity of languages and of cultures, as in the case of biodiversity, is increasingly being seen as a good and beautiful thing in itself. |
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