International Mother Language Day Essay

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Composition on International Mother Language Day Similar to: The Language Movement The 21st February The Shaheed Day Introduction: each and every man has an inherited language of his own to express his ideas, feelings and emotions. This is called his mother language. Mother and mother language: the words ‘mother’ and ‘mother tongue’ are quite indispensable with each other. There actually exists an integrated relationship between the two words which can better be compared to the between the two words which can better be compared to the two flowers bloomed in the same petal on the same branch of a tree. We are the Bengalese. Bengali is our mother tongue or mother language. To speak in mother tongue is a birth right of a man. No one has any …show more content…

Finding no other alternative, they called for a strike on February 21 to support the cause of Bengali. The government imposed 144 in Dhaka. But the strikers defied and brought our a procession. All on a sudden, the police opened fire on the procession. As a consequence, may people including some students named salam, rafiq, barkat, jabber and many others died. Many were injured and hundreds were arrested. Ultimately, they were compelled to accept Bengali as one of the state language of Pakistan. UNESCO’s recognition: it is a matter a great joy and prides that now this day has got international recognition as ‘the international mother language day.’ This declaration was made by the UNESCO on November, 17, 1999. This declaration has made a national event into an international event. Now these 188 countries of the world observe the 21st February as the international mother language day. Thus the sacrifices of all the martyrs for the championing cause of their mother tongue have now received a glorious recognition by the people of the world. Our poet shamsur rahman expressed his fallings saying, “It is a matter of great pride for us all that the country, whose people sacrificed their lives for the cause of motherland, its language has now got international

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