During her visit, the Director-General also visited the International Mother Language Institute, established for the research and preservation of languages.
To recognize the importance of linguistic diversity, the UNESCO General Conference proclaimed International Mother Language Day (IMLD) in November 1999.
Since 2000, UNESCO and its Member States have celebrated International Mother Language Day annually on 21 February in order to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.
On this occasion, she stressed the importance of multilingualism for maintaining cultural diversity and supporting early education in mother tongue language.
She also wants to explore the impact of a pregnant mother who uses "baby-talk" rather than adult language, perhaps because the mother has other young children and is using modified speech to communicate with them.
These markets of language, complimented by reading sacred texts in the mother tongue, created a new sense of community among speakers of each language, the seeds of nationalism.
The Year was launched at a language workshop on International Mother Languages Day, 21 February 2008.
These materials are for use in the third grade in two subject areas: Person, Culture and Nature and Language and Communication (Mother Tongue).
They employ a staff of Arabic language experts including those whose mother tongue is Arabic.
The Kabyle mother tongue, Berber, is an oral language still in the process of being codified.
And most black children came from poor, ill-educated families where English, the main language of instruction, was not their mother tongue.
He has his mother to thank for ensuring that he mastered the local Kikuyu language, which helps him to connect with his countrymen in rural areas.
Since then, he has played down his language proficiency, bolstered during childhood summers spent at his mother's family estate in Brittany.
He supports a ban on same-sex marriage, laws restricting abortion except in cases involving rape, incest or a threat to the life of the mother, and legislation that would make English the country's official language.
Metchsedes Ramirez(ph) explains in Ketchua, the indigenous language, that he's performing a ritual honoring the Earth mother.
Ramsey's talent was first spotted when his mother took him to a football session in Caerphilly run by the Urdd Welsh language youth movement.
The show has Nye's enthusiastic character reference for Stern, as well as the German-language diary of 8-year-old Lore Moser, whose mother was a cousin of Stern's.
WSJ: A Tortuous Road to Refuge | Against the Odds | Museum of Jewish Heritage | By Julia M. Klein
Instead of welcoming each new immigrant as a potential instructor of his or her language in exchange for learning English, we have marginalized our immigrant population and reject their mother tongues while offering antiquated, often inaccessible English training.
She considered Germany, Austria and Scotland, her mother says, before deciding on Italy, a place she'd never been and where the people spoke a language she hadn't studied.
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