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Sanskrit in India: Current Status and Government Initiatives to Promote Sanskrit in Education

Sanskrit is an ancient Indo-European language, often called the “mother of all languages.” This language serves as the...

📅 December 26, 2024

‘French Language Day’ celebrated on March 20

The United Nations introduced Language Days in 2010, to celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity of various languages. The United...

📅 March 21, 2020

UNESCO celebrates International Mother Language Day

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched International Mother Language Day (IMLD) in 1991, with...

📅 February 22, 2020

22nd edition of Ethnologue released

The 22nd edition of the world language database Ethnologue was recently released. As per the list, Hindi is...

📅 February 20, 2020

January 10: World Hindi Day

The World Hindi day is celebrated every year on January 10 in order to promote the language world-wide....

📅 January 10, 2020

World’s New Nation: Bougainville gains independence from Papua New Guinea

On December 11, 2019, the South Pacific Archipelago of Bougainville voted to become independent of Papua New Guinea....

📅 December 12, 2019

2019 edition of International Translation Day (ITD)

The International Translation Day (ITD) is celebrated every year on 30th of September to pay tribute to the...

📅 October 1, 2019

September 30: World Translation Day

The World Translation Day is marked by the United Nations to pay tribute to the language professionals. By...

📅 September 30, 2019

2019 edition of World Tribal Day (WTD)

The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (or World Tribal Day) is observed on August 9 to...

📅 August 9, 2019

Languages of the World

Contrary to the popular misconception that India has the most no. of different languages that are spoken in...

📅 August 8, 2019

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