{"id":8310,"date":"2015-02-21T20:25:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T10:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=8310"},"modified":"2015-02-21T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T10:25:23","slug":"iml-day-and-mother-tonguescript-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2015\/02\/iml-day-and-mother-tonguescript-monuments\/","title":{"rendered":"IML Day &#8211; and mother tongue\/script  monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s International Mother Language Day, and Canberra&#8217;s celebrations can be seen here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_sVcbPQNmyw&#038;feature=youtu.be\">from the ABC<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> So.. the mother language <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shaheed_Minar,_Dhaka\">whose defence led to the choice of 21 February<\/a> for the day:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/First_Shaheed_Minar_1952.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/First_Shaheed_Minar_1952.jpg\" alt=\"First_Shaheed_Minar_1952\" width=\"200\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8313\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand the <a href=\"http:\/\/ourdhakacity.blogspot.com.au\/2010\/07\/central-shahid-minardhaka-central.html\">second Shaheed Minar monument<\/a> in Dhaka:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shaheedminar-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shaheedminar-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"shaheedminar-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shaheedminar-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shaheedminar-2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/c1\/Afrikaans_Language_Monument.jpg\">Afrikaans Language monument<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Afrikaans_Language_Monument.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Afrikaans_Language_Monument-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Afrikaans_Language_Monument\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Afrikaans_Language_Monument-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Afrikaans_Language_Monument-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a mother script &#8211; image from <a href=\"http:\/\/asbarez.com\/132023\/un-armenia-commemorates-international-mother-language-day\/\">Armenians celebrating IML Day<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Armenian_alphabet-statues.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Armenian_alphabet-statues-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Armenian_alphabet-statues\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Armenian_alphabet-statues-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Armenian_alphabet-statues.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seeking more examples of public commemoration of speech communities and their ways of talking and writing&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s International Mother Language Day, and Canberra&#8217;s celebrations can be seen here from the ABC. So.. the mother language whose defence led to the choice of 21 February for the day: and the second Shaheed Minar monument in Dhaka: And the Afrikaans Language monument: And a mother script &#8211; image from Armenians celebrating IML Day: &#8230; <a title=\"IML Day &#8211; and mother tongue\/script  monuments\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2015\/02\/iml-day-and-mother-tonguescript-monuments\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about IML Day &#8211; and mother tongue\/script  monuments\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8320,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions\/8320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}