21 February was designated International Mother Language Day by the United Nations as a day to celebrate language diversity and variety worldwide and in memory of students killed in Bangladesh on 21 February 1952 because they were demanding equal use of their mother language, Bengali, in their country.
21. februar so Združeni narodi izbrali za mednarodni dan maternega jezika &ndash;kot praznik raznolikosti in pestrosti jezikov v svetu in v spomin na ubite študente, ki so 21. februarja 1952 v Bangladešu protestno zahtevali uradno rabo njihovega maternega jezika, bengalščine.