23.902, Media: Focus on languages on International Mother Languages Day

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Subject: 23.902, Media: Focus on languages on International Mother Languages Day

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Date: 22-Feb-2012
From: Brent Woo [bwoo at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Focus on languages on International Mother Languages Day


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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:29:32
From: Brent Woo [bwoo at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Focus on languages on International Mother Languages Day

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In honor of International Mother Languages Day, celebrated on February 21, 
countries turn their focus to languages. A couple examples of countries 
supporting language study:

Armenia's Parliament held a special meeting to commemorate the work scholars 
have done on preserving Armenian: http://www.parliament.am/news.php?
cat_id=2&NewsID=5027&year=2012&month=02&day=21&lang=eng

The Bureau of Ghana Languages urges schools and the Ministry of Culture to 
concentrate on actively supporting native language use in education and public 
realms: http://gbcghana.com/index.php?id=1.793177 


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics





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