{"id":51837,"date":"2022-02-14T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/event\/rahvusvaheline-emakeelepaev\/"},"modified":"2022-04-12T17:08:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:08:31","slug":"international-mother-language-day","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/event\/international-mother-language-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Mother Language Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea to celebrate International Mother Language Day was the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/ark:\/48223\/pf0000120679.page=184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">initiative of Bangladesh<\/a>. It was approved at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0011\/001179\/117961e.pdf#page=38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1999 UNESCO General Conference<\/a>&nbsp;and has been observed throughout the world since 2000.<\/p><p>UNESCO believes in the importance of cultural and linguistic diversity for sustainable societies. It is within its mandate for peace that it works to preserve the differences in cultures and languages that foster tolerance and respect for others. &nbsp;<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/ga\/search\/view_doc.asp?symbol=A\/RES\/56\/262&amp;Lang=E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Linguistic diversity<\/a>&nbsp;is increasingly threatened as more and more languages&nbsp;disappear. Globally 40 per cent of the population does not have access to an education in a language they speak or understand. Nevertheless, progress is being made in mother tongue-based multilingual education with growing understanding of its importance, particularly in early schooling, and more commitment to its development in public life.<\/p><p>Multilingual and multicultural societies exist through their languages which transmit and preserve traditional knowledge and cultures in a sustainable way.<\/p><div class=\"my-12 my-md-16 px-4 pt-6 border-primary-top content-section\">\r\n    \n<ul class=\"is-style-links wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/commemorations\/motherlanguageday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Mother Language Day<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was approved at the\u00a01999 UNESCO General Conference\u00a0and has been observed throughout the world since 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":26350,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[3410,3496,3290,3420],"event-venue":[],"event-category":[],"event-tag":[],"class_list":["post-51837","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-indigenous-peoples-en","tag-keelepaev-en","tag-languages-en","tag-we-celebrate-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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