<span style="color: #222222;">International Mother Language Day is being observed today all over the nation to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity with an aim to promote multilingualism.<br />”<br />”The day 21st &nbsp;February &nbsp;was first announced as &nbsp;Mother Language Day by UNESCO on 17th November 1999 and was formally recognised by the United Nations General Assembly in 2002.<br />”<br />”The day is part of a broader initiative to promote the preservation and protection of all languages used by people of the world as adopted by the UN General Assembly. &nbsp;<br />”<br />”The first entry on the timeline of International Mother Language Day dates back to 1952 when the Bengali Language Movement started in former East Bengal.<br />”<br />”Three years later in 1955, Language Movement Day was first observed in Bangladesh.</span><br />