Only speak when your words are better than your silence. UNESCO
proclaimed 21 February the International Mother Language Day in
1999 – in memory of the protest and death of Bengalese students
who 47 years before demanded equality of their language – in
order to highlight the need to preserve cultural and linguistic
diversity of individual areas in the world. Mother tongue - the
language we normally learn first Mother tongue is learnt in
early childhood in the family or another primary environment as
the first language. It is normally the first language one
learns; however, in case children learn two (bilingualism) or
more (multilingualism) languages in early childhood,
statistically speaking mother tongue is the language which
people determine as their mother tongue. For people living on
the territory of Slovenia this is mostly Slovene; for people
living in ethnically mixed areas it is also Italian and
Hungarian, and for some people it can be some other Slavic
language such as Croatian, Serbian, etc. The Slov