Mother tongue is a favorite subject of life to humans. Through the mother tongue people carry the identity of the nation by exposing themselves to the world. Thousands of years ago our Bengali language was born through many evolution. The history of evolution of Bangla language is very ancient. Like all things in the material world, language is always changing. It is equally applicable to our mother tongue Bengali. The language of the sixth language of the language as a numerator in the language of four thousand languages on earth. About 25 million people speak Bengali, which is a great pride for us. In Bengali literature, he has earned a special reputation in many poet-literary world. Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in Bangla in 1913. Rabindranath's Nobel Prize gets elevated to the world by the Nobel Prize. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman also highlighted the magnificence of Bangla language with a speech in 1974 in the UN session. In this way Bengali language has got special place in the world with the help of many people.
Start of
Language dissemination began in November-December 1947 in Dhaka, in the post-divisional East Bengal capital, with the formulas of the language that originated in Bengal's self-interest in Bengali language position in Bengali society. In March 1948, there was a limited movement on this issue, and on 21 February 1952, it was unveiled. In the spirit of the Ekushey February, 1952, the Bangalis, who had established their mother tongue in the dignity of the people with blood, gained recognition from the international community passing the country today.
Based on bi-ethnicity in 1947, British India was partitioned and Pakistan emerged. But two parts of Pakistan - between East Pakistan and West Pakistan, there were many fundamental differences between cultural, geographical and linguistic aspects. In 1948, the Government of Pakistan announced that Urdu would be the only state language in Pakistan. In the context of this announcement, deep distraction was born between the Bangla-speaking general public in East Pakistan and created adverse reactions. In order to demand the respect of Bengali language, movement in East Pakistan rapidly started. The police imposed Section 144 on the movement to stop the movement. On 21 February 1952 (8 Falgun 1358), many students of the Dhaka University and some progressive political activists started the procession, disobeying this order. When the procession came near Dhaka Medical College, the police fired at the protesters on the pretext of contempt of Section 144. The streets of the blood of the martyrs became ranjit. The tragedy of the tragedy spread all over East Pakistan. In the face of growing mass movements, the central government of Pakistan was eventually forced to accept. In the constitution adopted in 1956, the Bangla language was recognized by one of the state languages of Pakistan.
Language Day Celebration
Since the establishment of an independent Bangladesh in 1971, the day has been celebrated as a National Day of Mourning, sometimes or martyrdom day. Since 2001, the day is celebrated as International Mother Language Day. Government holiday in Bangladesh this day. Bangladesh Betar, Bangladesh Television, highlighted the significance of the media in different media. Special supplements were published in the daily newspapers. The Amar Ekushey Book Fair was organized in Bangla Academy premises throughout the month of February. The government of Bangladesh provides the Ekushey Padak of prominent people around Bangla language movement.
Recognition as International Mother Language Day
Two Bengali Rafiqul Islam and Abdus Salam, who lived in Vancouver, Canada, urged the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to declare Ekushey February as International Mother Language Day in 1998 as the primary entrepreneur. The Ekushey February was declared International Mother Language Day in UNESCO's Paris session on November 17, 1999, and since February 21, 2000, the day is celebrated in UN member states with appropriate status. On 21 October 2010, the UN General Assembly passed the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 21st February every year, a UN resolutions on UN resolving the International Mother Language Day will be passed unanimously. The government of Bangladesh has been writing to UNESCO for recognition on 21st February as 'International Mother Language Day', which passed on 17 November 1999, with full support from the 30th General Assembly of the organization.
International Mother Language Institute
On 21st November, 1999, when the United Nations declared the birth anniversary of the International Mother Language Day, immense happiness was enjoyed among people irrespective of religion, caste, community and community. Everyone achieves this achievement and pride. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu and daughter of the then Bangladesh government, announced in a huge public rally held in Paltan Maidan on 7 December that an international mother tongue institute will be set up in Dhaka to study the dignity and rights of the world's flourishing and extinct languages. Accordingly, he laid the foundation stone of International Mother Language Institute in Dhaka on 15 March 2001 at 1 / a Segunbagicha. The ceremony was attended by United Nations Secretary-General Manabhar Kofi at Anan. After passing the International Mother Language Institute Act of 2010, in the great national parliament, the institute has been implementing various programs for the study, preservation and development of mother language and success in the implementation process.