21st February

Shaheed Minar
Bangladesh
February 21, 2017 1:19am CST
Today is 21st February. International Mother Language Day. In this day of 1952, many people sacrificed their lives for the sake of mother tongue "Bangla". We pay a great homage to those language martyrs on this day. We are proud of them. We are proud of Bangla Language. I'm a Bangladeshi. Bangla is our mother tongue as well as state language. I love this language very much. What are your mother languages and state languages?
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
21 Feb 17
We don't have that kind of celebration here. And it is great to know you are celebrating your Mother Language Day.
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• Bangladesh
21 Feb 17
We had to struggle a lot to establish this language as our state language. So it's so special for us.
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
21 Feb 17
@Priyanka1990 From where you maam?
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• Bangladesh
21 Feb 17
@JustBhem Bangladesh
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@Samia786m (522)
• India
21 Feb 17
My state language is marathi.And my mother tongue is gujarati.But I speaks Hindi.I can't speak marathi or gujarati.
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• Bangladesh
21 Feb 17
But you should know those languages also. Thanx for comment
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• Bangladesh
21 Feb 17
@Samia786m No problem. If you try, you'll be able to learn those.
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• India
21 Feb 17
@Priyanka1990 I can understand gujarati.But I can't speak.And I know only few words of marathi.
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@dfollin (25351)
• United States
21 Feb 17
I have never heard of this. In the USA Mother's Day is usually the first Sunday in the month of May.
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@dfollin (25351)
• United States
21 Feb 17
@Priyanka1990 Oh ok, not sure what that is
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• Bangladesh
21 Feb 17
It's not mother's day. It's the mother language day.
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@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
21 Feb 17
Tumhi Bhaloo! Congratulations to you on the occasion of International Mother Language Day. Bangla is a very sweet language. Once I tried to learn it but I could not. Needless to say that Bangla is spoken in some of the Indian States also. My mother tongue is Hindi.
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@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
21 Feb 17
@Priyanka1990 You did not comment on my comment which I made in Bangla. Hopefully, you were born after Bangladesh was carved out of the territory.
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• Bangladesh
21 Feb 17
@dpk262006 yah.. but I've come to know everything from the history. ha ami valo achi. apni?
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• Bangladesh
21 Feb 17
I know that. We were a part of India then. Thanx a lot.
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@Sreekala (34312)
• India
21 Feb 17
One must love and respect their own mother languages. In our country every state has its own mother tongue.
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@Sreekala (34312)
• India
21 Feb 17
@Priyanka1990 You are very much right
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• Bangladesh
21 Feb 17
@Sreekala thanx
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• Bangladesh
21 Feb 17
yah... we can express our all emotions & feelings deeply only in mother tongue
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@WriterAI (5373)
• Bulgaria
21 Feb 17
Great! Congrats to you and your people! It is really worth to be proud of Bangla Language. I love my language very much too. My mother language is Bulgarian and our state language is Bulgarian.
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@WriterAI (5373)
• Bulgaria
21 Feb 17
@Priyanka1990 Not at all! You are welcome! I am linguist too. I am interested in language situations in different countries. I am very sensitive about such language problems. They unify history, culture and political situation. I am curious about such situations globally.
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• Bangladesh
21 Feb 17
thanx
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• Bangladesh
21 Feb 17
@WriterAI Hmm this is a very sensitive issue
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
22 Feb 17
Wikipedia calls in "Bengali." I'm tempted to 'take this to Snopes.com,' it's so unbelievable that they would outlaw use of a language at a university! Anyway, I'm English-speaking all the way (yes, I took some Spanish- & German- & even a little Russian-classes; but those are still 'secret-code-languages' to me (like Klingon & Romulan & Vulcan )). Actually, Oklahoma (America) is home to many of the Native American tribes that gave us code-talkers in a war long ago---Cherokee, Choctaw, maybe Comanche & Seminole, along with obscure languages from elsewhere (look-up "code talkers" on Wikipedia).
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• Bangladesh
22 Feb 17
thanx a lot for this valuable response
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@RasmaSandra (79714)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
21 Feb 17
Congrats to you all. My mother language is English and my second is Latvian. I also know a bit of German and French.
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• Bangladesh
21 Feb 17
good
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@josie_ (10034)
• Philippines
22 Feb 17
Tagalog (sometimes referred to as Pilipino or Filipino in English) is the national language of the Philippines but we have many regional languages. English is spoken or understood by most Filipinos.
@MissNikki (5237)
• Maple Ridge, British Columbia
30 Mar 17
My language is English. Here in Canada, our two official languages are English and French. I hope you have a nice International Mother Language Day
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@tom_view (6451)
• Kolkata, India
21 Feb 17
happy mother tongue day.
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5 Mar 17
My mother tongue and my state language is TAMIL. Proud to be a tamilian...
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• Bangladesh
6 Mar 17
good
@Aushaw (880)
24 Feb 17
Sacrificed their lives? No doubt your proud of them. My mother tongue is "Kannada". It is our state language as well.
• Bangladesh
22 Feb 17
I'm also a Bangladeshi and proud of my mother language.