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The head of the UN’s educational and cultural agency, UNESCO, has called for defending linguistic and cultural diversity in her message to mark International Mother Language Day on Monday.
The UN educational and cultural agency, UNESCO, has encouraged people everywhere to celebrate the world’s diversity by supporting multilingualism at school and in everyday life: the theme for International Mother Language Day, observed on Sunday.
Thousands of languages are under threat amid a lack of linguistic diversity on the internet, but technology can keep them alive, the chairperson of a leading body of humanitarian translators said on Thursday - International Mother Language Day.
A radio journalist at the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is highlighting the benefits of multilingualism.
Sebbit Abdu, who speaks 10 languages, says he automatically feels at home in the places where they are spoken.
Mr Abdu spoke to Sebbit William on International Mother Language Day, observed annually on 21 February.
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Languages provide “strong emotional links,” so repressing the use of mother languages is “playing with fire”.
That’s according to Fernando Lopez Murcia, coordinator of the Spanish Language programme at the United Nations Headquarters.
Speaking to Lucy Dean in the lead up to International Mother Language Day, marked on 21 February, he said endangered languages should be conserved in the same way as endangered species of animals and began by explaining the value of multilingualism.