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Thursday, 23 February 2017

International Mother Language Day


"To promote the preservation and 
protection of all languages 
used by people of the world"

Languages are the most powerful instruments of preserving and developing our tangible and intangible heritage. All moves to promote the dissemination of mother tongues will serve not only to encourage linguistic diversity and multilingual education but also to develop fuller awareness of linguistic and cultural traditions throughout the world and to inspire solidarity based on understanding, tolerance and dialogue.
— from the United Nations International Mother Language Day


As a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Digital India initiative, digitized content will be made available in 22 scheduled languages which will be extended to other 234 recognized languages of India. The work of digitization has begun in June 2016 through "Bharatavani Project" at CIIL, Mysore and by the February 2017, content in 60 Indian languages have been made available for free.

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