International Mother Language Day

"Native - a child's first contact with the mother and the child's father. This is not a person forgets a language, where the person lives. Maternal language is a prism that determines a child's concept of the world's first child. Umbilical cord between mother tongue and thought are inseparable. It Native of thought, culture and heritage of an individual represents. "

Harun ur Rashid - Barrister,
Former United Nations, Geneva, Bangladesh Ambassador.

 Bengali (pronounced Baang-laa [baŋla]) or the Bengali region of South Asia known as Bengal, which is now Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and Tripura and Assam have formed part of the Indian state. With nearly 230 million total speakers, Bengali most spoken language (fourth place in the world for a long and rich literary tradition and a bloody history with the fifth or sixth one, Bengali binds together people of this region, especially the people of Bangladesh, who are mainly the language. In addition to the state to ensure the Bengali language for East Pakistan, the Indian state of Assam also takes place., May 19, 1961, 11 Bengalis Police Railway Station Silchar, Assam were killed in the firing, the recognition of the Bengali language in the state. Subsequently, Bengali Bengali-majority districts of Assam in the semi-official status is.Posted British colonial rule, Pakistan and Bangladesh are countries in West and East Pakistan as the two far-flung wings in a single race, were separated by India (1600 km distance), will appear on the map of the world on August 14, 1947. Religion is considered a strong bond that only the creator of this race and it was sufficient enough to transform a nation of people. They did not account for. Taking these two far-flung wings in the linguistic and cultural diversity is not East Pakistan wing of the language, and they were the majority, were Bengali. This is a rich literature of a thousand years of tradition. Bengalis have a highly developed culture that had little in common with the culture of western Pakistan. When the central leaders and the Urdu-speaking intellectuals of Pakistan in 1952 declared that 'Urdu and only Urdu language in the state of Pakistan, East Pakistan people after an uprising known as the Language Movement of 1952 in the.Through a great struggle and bloodshed, finally Bengalis as a state official Bengali language was established. Their mother tongue to speak and write in order to combat the extensive rights reserved Bengalis all over the world today as a source of pride and motivation they Ekushey February (21 February) to celebrate. Devotion, such as a right, which is unique in its character back and remembering a symbol of love and respect as a bloodbath, the United Nations has declared the year 2000 as the Mother Language Day on February 21.People and speaking linguistic the Bengali to have fallen more than the right, Shahid Minar, a solemn and symbolic sculpture, near Dhaka Medical College in memory of the victims of the massacre and his place was used for establishing the remembrance of this movement. Monument is a symbol of Bangladesh Nationalism. 21 February each year starting from the first of the hundreds of thousands of people and martyrs Shaheed Minar with garlands in their bare feet in remembrance walks in nine songs in their honor. Men and women not only wear black and white clothes.Language movement in East Pakistan to have laid the basis of Bengali nationalism considered, and many scholars and people today believe that the struggle for the independence of Bangladesh is derived from the Bengali Language Movement, and the emergence of linguistic nationalism and the sovereign Bangladesh.                  

                                                       The restrained dawn strains behind the crowd.