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<p>OUP Blog</p>
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<p>Celebrating linguistic diversity on International Mother Language Day </p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Full story:<br>
<a href="http://blog.oup.com/2015/02/international-mother-language-day/">http://blog.oup.com/2015/02/international-mother-language-day/</a></p>
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