International Mother Language Day Composition. Short and Easy.
International Mother Language Day.
Every nation has some achievements that they can take pride
in. Our language day is our national event and achievement. But the mother of
pride for us is that this national event has crossed our national boundary and
become universalized. The international Mother Language day is the recognition
of our language movement and the heroic sacrifice of the language martyrs by
the international community. Now, after the recognition, our language day is observed
globally as International Mother Language Day.
February 21st is observed as the language day.
This is the culmination of a series of protests and events that took place
between 1948 and 1952. After the independence of Pakistan, the ruling
authority of West Pakistan recognized Urdu as the state language of Pakistan in
1948 and tries to impose it on the
Bangla speaking majority people. Not only they also denied the demand of the
Bangles for the recognition of Bangla as the state language.
In 1952 protest
erupted throughout East Pakistan against the imposition of Urdu and for the
recognition of Bangla as the state
language of Pakistan. The ruling authority imposed section 144 all over the
country as the protest grew stronger. However, when student, politicians and
general masses brought out a procession. As a result, Rafiq, Jabbar, Salam,
Barkat, Shafiq met martyrdom. Finally, Bangla was recognized as the state
language. Since them, the day is observed throughout the country with
solemnity and due homage.
On 17 November 1999, UNESCO, a specialized organization of
United Nations recognized our language movement and sacrifices of the Martyrs. They
declared that UNESCO would observe the day internationally. Since 2000,
the international mother language day is being observed all over the world.
The recognition by UNESCO and the observance of the day by the
international community has increased our national glory and uplifted the
sacrifice off our language martyrs. Through UNESCO recognition, our language
day has got international status.
The recognition of our language day and the proclamation of
the observance of the day internationally in very significant. UNESCO’s
recognition is not simply a recognition of our language movement, but it
recognition that it is the birthright of every nation or race to speak in
their own language. The proclamation
also said that this recognition would
help to preserve all the languages of the world, and that diversity of
language is important to maintain
cultural identity and distinction.
Since 1952, the 21st of February is observed as the language day in
our country. We remember our martyrs, their sacrifices and pay homage to the
heroic souls who laid down their lives for the cause of our mother tongue. We
have erected monuments ( known as Shahid Minar)
in remembrance of them and on 21 February we offer flower wreaths and
stand silent in honor of them.
However, the importance of 21st February and its observance lies elsewhere. it
sows the seed of our liberation war. And importantly, the language movement
teaches us that we have to rise for achieving our rights, for establishing our
place of honor and dignity in the world. It teaches us not to bow down to any
oppression. It also inspires us to
sacrifice our most treasured thing for
the sake of the country. So the importance of international mother language day is very significant.
We are the only nation of the world to sacrifice lives for
the mother tongue. International mother language
is a glorious recognition of our history and our achievement. International
mother language day highlights the importance of linguistic identity and
variety. We are really proud that we have achieved something that has got
global acceptance.
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