International Year of Indigenous Languages

On the 24^th of October, we celebrated the United Nations Day. The United Nations declared 2019 The Year of Indigenous Languages in order to raise awareness of them, not only to benefit the people who speak this languages, but also for others to appreciate the important contribution they make to our world’s rich cultural diversity.

In our school, we celebrated the United Nations Day by having some activities such as spoken word poetry. There is also a pageant for this event. Languages play a crucial role in our daily lives, not only as a tool for communication, education, social integration and development, but also as a repository for each person’s unique identity, cultural history, traditions and memory. But despite their immense value, languages around the world continue to disappear at an alarming rate.

As Roger Bacon said, “Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom”.

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