International Mother Language Day is Today!!!

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Hi guys, Hope you all are doing good and hope your weekend went great. I am doing good too. I came across this news so thought to share it here. Back in 1999, the UNESCO declared 21st February, as "International Mother Language Day". It is a worldwide annual observance in order to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity. It also aims to promote multilingualism. Knowing one's mother tongue is very important in different cultures and religions. It gives a different identity to people from across the world. The benefits are the children gets to feel rooted if they are aware of their mother tongue. It helps in getting employment opportunities as in locally, it helps to boost one's confidence, higher success in learning second languages and the communication with own culture is better. My mother tongue is Gujarati as I live in Gujarat state in India and I am proud of it. Some of the most spoken languages in the world are as follows:- 1). English - 1.132 million people 2). Mandarin - 1.117 million people 3) Hindi - 615 million people 4). Spanish - 534 million people 5). French - 280 million people 6). Arabic - 274 million people 7). Bengali - 265 million people 8). Russian - 258 million people 9). Portuguese - 234 million people 10). Indonesian - 194 million people I hope you find this information interesting. I was intrigued to know about it. Have a good day!! Share your mother tongue here. Take care!!!