[Edling] Celebrating linguistic diversity on International Mother Language Day

[Francis Hult]

OUP Blog



Celebrating linguistic diversity on International Mother Language Day



Bangladeshis symbolically commemorate that struggle every year on February 21st, calling the day Shoheed Divosh (Martyrs’ Day) or more commonly, Ekushey (Twenty-first). Ekushey became the cultural symbol of Bangladesh because several sacrificed their lives and hundreds were injured during a march on February 21, 1952, in their effort to promote Bangla as a national language of Pakistan.



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