{"id":2757,"date":"2024-02-23T09:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T09:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.kibu.ac.ke\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2024-02-23T09:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T09:04:08","slug":"international-mother-language-day-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kibu.ac.ke\/fass\/international-mother-language-day-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"International Mother Language Day 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2757\" class=\"elementor elementor-2757\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-55660c95 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"55660c95\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1e7c5542\" data-id=\"1e7c5542\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7455ac23 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7455ac23\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>At Kibabii University, located in the foothills of the imposing Mt. Masaba, we celebrated International Mother Language Day amid colour, pomp, glamour, song and dance. This special day was established by UNESCO in 1952 in memory of martyrs, students and language activists in Eastern Pakistan, now Bangladesh, who perished while protesting the unfair exclusion of Bengali language. The Bangladesh government had elevated Urdu to a national language. Bengali speakers felt discriminated against.<\/p><p>Each year, on 21st February, we congregate to speak, sing and dance as a gesture of linguistic diversity, preservation and protection of all languages around the world.<\/p><p>Languages are not just a means of communication; they also act as repositories of history, culture and identity. Languages shape our world view, beliefs, and the general socialization.<\/p><p>This day is marked by exchanging riddles, spoken word, phrases, songs or proverbs in mother languages. 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