International Mother Language Day Paragraph 100 Words
Mother tongue means a language through which the people of a country express their ideas, thoughts, feelings, and emotions clearly. 21st February is International Mother Language Day. This day has been declared International Mother Language Day by UNESCO to pay due respect to the existing mother tongues of different countries. In reply to a proposition of the Bangladesh Govt. the declaration has come to reality. The day has a long glorious historical background. It is miserable that the then rulers of Pakistan tried to impose ‘Urdu’ as the state language on us instead of Bengali. Before our country’s independence in 1952, the then-Pakistani ruler Jinnah declared in a public meeting that “Only Urdu and Urdu shall be the state language of Pakistan.”The people of our country burst into a protest against this unjustified decision. Some of the heroic sons of this- soil came forward and sacrificed their valuable lives for the cause of the mother tongue on 21st February 1952. The objective of observing the day is to pay homage to the language martyrs. The day is essential for the people of Bangladesh. Now it is a matter of great pleasure and prestige that this day got international recognition in 1999 as International Mother Language Day.