The year 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of International Mother Language Day. This milestone highlights a quarter-century of dedicated efforts to preserve linguistic diversity and promote the use of mother tongues.
It serves as a significant opportunity to reflect on achievements, renew commitments, and emphasize the critical role of language preservation in safeguarding cultural heritage, improving education outcomes and creating more peaceful, sustainable societies.
The 25th anniversary of International Mother Language Day celebrates a quarter-century of efforts to preserve linguistic diversity and promote mother tongues. This milestone emphasizes the importance of language preservation in safeguarding cultural heritage, improving education, and fostering more peaceful societies.
International Mother Language Jubilee 2025
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- Theme 2025:
"Silver Jubilee Celebration of International Mother Language Day !"
The 25th anniversary of International Mother Language Day celebrates a quarter-century of efforts to preserve linguistic diversity and promote mother tongues. This milestone emphasizes the importance of language preservation in safeguarding cultural heritage, improving education, and fostering more peaceful societies.
Significance of International Mother Language
Languages are essential carriers of identity, tradition, and history. The loss of a language leads to the disappearance of unique cultural expressions, indigenous knowledge, and traditional practices.
This day raises awareness about the urgent need to document, revitalize, and protect endangered languages.
With approximately 8,324 languages in the world today, many are at risk of disappearing due to globalization and societal changes.
Ensuring that education systems support the right to learn in one's mother tongue is crucial for improving learning outcomes, as students who are taught in a language they fully understand show better comprehension, engagement, and critical thinking skills.
World Atlas of Languages (Beta Version)
The World Atlas of Languages is an interactive and dynamic online tool that documents different aspects and features of language status in countries and languages around the world. It aims to provide a detailed record of languages as communicative tools and knowledge resources in their sociocultural and socio-political context.
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Education
- The role of teachers:
The overall aim of IMLD 2025 is to contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 4 by recognizing the role of teachers in promoting mother languages and multilingual teaching and learning through reading and technology. in different languages.
The digital revolution has highlighted the digital divide in language representation. Less than a hundred languages are significantly used in the digital world.
"Increasing linguistic representation in digital platforms, AI tools, and online education is essential to safeguard linguistic diversity in the modern era."
Students :
-Share key messages via social networks with students of the world. You must celebrate the Jubilee of International Mother Language.
International Mother Language Day is a reminder of the importance of linguistic and cultural diversity and the need to support and celebrate mother tongues.
By promoting mother tongues in education and online, we can help to preserve linguistic diversity and strengthen communities.
By valuing and supporting mother tongues, we can create a more inclusive and harmonious society. It’s a call to action for all of us to do something positive to support language diversity and multilingualism.
