On February 21, 2023, an employee of Bolgar Museum-Reserve Sabirzyanova L. I. held for 18 students of Bolgar secondary school № 1 an event on “My native language is my pride!” timed to the International Mother Tongue Day.
On February 21, the world celebrates the International Mother Tongue Day. On November 17, 1999, the holiday was proclaimed by the UNESCO General Conference. People began to mark it on February 21, 2000. The purpose of this date is to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.
Nowadays, there are nearly 7 thousand languages in the world. Over 2.5 thousand languages among them are on the verge of extinction. International Mother Language Day aims to protect endangered languages. All languages are equal because each of them is unique. There is only one state language in Russia – Russian.
During the event, students learned about the history of the holiday, the reasons for the disappearance of languages, and the Red Book of Russian people’s languages. Also, a conversation about the native language and Tatar writers was held with the children.

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