International Mother Language Day

Mother language is the language used by the people of a country to express their ideas, thoughts, feeling and emotion.

• The 21st February is the international mother language day.
• To recognize the sacrifice of our language martyrs, UNESCO declared the day as International Mother Language Day, on November 17 in 1999.
• Now, this day is observed-as International Mother Language Day in all the member countries of UNO. Glorious historical background of mother language day
• The then Pakistani rulers wanted to impose 'Urdu' as the state language upon us instead of our mother tongue, Bangla,
• In 1952, Mr. Jinnah, the then Governor General of Pakistan declared that 'Only Urdu and Urdu shall be the state language of Pakistan.'
• But the heroic sons of this land protested it. The students brought out a procession on 21 February in 1952 and the police opened fire on the procession and Salam, Jabbar, Barkat, Rafiq and many other students died.
  We can uphold the glory of the day by
• Fostering the very spirit of Mother Language Day and
• Creating an atmosphere congenial to the advancement of our mother tongue.