International Mother Language Day!

February 21 is International Mother Language Day!

February 21 was proclaimed International Mother Language Day by UNESCO’s General Conference in November 1999 and has been observed every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.

So many languages die out because their own native speakers don't recognize the value of them. They choose to learn regional and international languages in order to survive and compete in a global economy. But they lose a great cultural heritage in the process.

Celebrate your Mother Language today, whether it is an international language like English, Russian or French, a regional language like Swahili or Persian, or a language spoken little outside its home territory like Igbo, Icelandic or Tibetan!

Most Beautiful Language in the World

I have updated the results on the Most Beautiful Language Survey page. It's a very subjective survey, of course, but I at least wanted to show visitors what people are thinking, along with the Hardest Language to Learn and Easiest Language to Learn surveys.

Actually, I'll be leaving the form open to increase the number of results I have - the larger the sampling, the more the results will reflect the opinion of the average language learner. As of right now, a few aggressive fans of a single language could motivate a number of number of people to skew the results. But, I'll update on a regular basis. I'm not in any hurry and the survey isn't for anything in particular.