Mother Language Day: Talking about how your beak has grown

UNESCO also sees the preservation and protection of linguistic and cultural diversity as essential. On average, one of the more than 6,000 languages ​​worldwide disappears every two weeks. And with it, cultural and intellectual heritage disappears.

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The Austrian dialect or the various dialects are also often viewed as being at risk – on the one hand due to “television German”, which is becoming increasingly popular via TV and streaming series, especially among younger Upper Austrians, and can now be heard more frequently, on the other hand others through “Denglisch” (a made-up word from German and English) – the displacement of dialect or German words by English expressions or phrases (funny instead of funny, random instead of coincidental, tasty instead of tasty or good, etc.).

Mother Language Day has its origins in the 1950s: In 1952, the government of Pakistan decided to make Urdu the official language – but it was only the mother tongue for around 3 percent of the population. In East Pakistan almost only Bengali was spoken. On February 21, 1952, there were protests during which the police shot at demonstrators and there were fatalities. The conflict subsequently led to the division of the country – the state of Bangladesh was founded in 1971. Since 1999, the General Conference of UNESCO has dedicated February 21st to the mother tongue.

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