International Mother Language Day was started ‘to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism’, in February 2000. 18 years later, it is a chance to celebrate your own language and culture, as well as other languages and cultures.
The aim of International Mother Language Day is to encourage all the languages in the world to be kept alive and taught and the cultures from which the languages have come from to be understood and embraced.
Languages are very important for society, because they allow people to communicate and express themselves.
In the world, it is thought that there are currently 6909 living languages, which is maybe not an exact number because some ‘linguists sometimes disagree what are distinct languages and what are dialects of the same language.’
Only a few hundred languages are taught in the educational system and to the public, with even less of those languages used in the digital world. As a result, it is thought that more than 50% of the 6909 languages will no longer exist in a few generations.
Ways to celebrate International Mother Language Day
'Hey' one of the most common greetings in the US that can also be used in the plural, as in: “Hey guys” and “Hey ya'll” (ya'll is used in many of the southern US states as a plural “you all” form).
'Hey' one of the most common greetings in the US that can also be used in the plural, as in: “Hey guys” and “Hey ya'll” (ya'll is used in many of the southern US states as a plural “you all” form).
The use of 'hello' was suggested by Thomas Edison. Bell, however, preferred the use of the nautical terms 'ahoy' or 'ahoy-hoy' as used to hail ships. 'Hello' eventually won out in popular usage, but if you watch the cartoon series 'The Simpsons' you'll find that Mr. Burns always answers the phone, "ahoy-hoy."
Ciao (/tʃaʊ/ CHOW, Italian: [ˈtʃaːo]) is an informal salutation in the Italian language that is used for both "hello" and "goodbye". Originally from the Venetian language, it has entered the vocabulary of English and of many other languages around the world.
An older greeting form was hail be thou, meaning 'be healthy'. So how we express even such an apparently basic language function like greeting changes with time. Just to drive home the point, the Old English Wes hāl could be used to say 'goodbye' as well as 'hello'.
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