This monument is located in Ashfield Park, in the inner west suburb of Ashfield. It encourages the conservation of mother tongues, linguistic diversity and multilingual education. The United Nations International Mother Language Day celebrates language diversity and variety worldwide annually on 21 February. It remembers events such as the killing of four Dhaka University students on 21 February 1952, because they campaigned to officially use their mother language, Bengali, in Bangladesh which was then East Pakistan. The monument was unveiled in 2006 by the Ekushe Academy Australia, a Bangladeshi Australian organisation.
Beautiful monument!..Christine
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jamie
Perfect timing, Jim.
ReplyDeleteStephen Fry's Planet Word started this week, covering exactly the same issues - conservation of mother tongues, linguistic diversity and multilingual education.
Hels, that's interesting. I'll keep an eye out for it. I decided to post this one today following on from Harmony Day celebrations yesterday.
ReplyDeleteExcellent post!
ReplyDeleteHow far we have come! And 1952 was not that long ago.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time I have visited your blog and it won't be the last time. Very nice! Thanks for taking the time to visit me....~Marlee
ReplyDeleteGreat shot of a nice monument and it's surrounds!
ReplyDeleteA very moving monument. I'm glad to see it erected.
ReplyDeleteGreat find for Harmony Day.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea there was a Mother Language Day. Half the fun of travelling decades ago was not being understood.
ReplyDeleteGreat monument!
ReplyDeleteI have posted on this topic on my "other"blog:
http://nicholasjv.blogspot.com.au/2008/02/on-mother-tongue.html
Thanks for that link, Nick. Interesting post.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shots!
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting.