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.

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As Masani points out, India has endured linguistic division of states and language riots, but English medium schools thrive in towns and villages today.

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The method starts by making use of well-established linguistic data on words and grammar within these language families, and building "family trees" of those languages.

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Maybe I have spent too much time in post- linguistic turn academia, but the importance of language in general, and definition and metaphor more specifically, is not exactly a new or particularly controversial position.

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