Which country fights language?

It also remembers events such as the killing of four students on February 21, 1952, because they campaigned to officially use their mother language, Bengali, in Bangladesh. The fight for language diversity has a history, especially in countries such as Bangladesh.

Which country has most number of languages not India?

Which country has most number of languages? Not India

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• 2019 is UN’s Year of Indigenous Languages. The Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea has the highest number of ‘living’ indigenous languages in the world (840), while India stands fourth with 453.

Which country has more languages than any other in the world?

Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is the most multilingual country, with over 839 living languages, according to Ethnologue, a catalogue of the world’s known languages.

Which is International Mother Language?

UNESCO declared 21st February as International Mother Language Day in 1999 and World has been celebrating the same since 2000. The day also commemorates a long struggle by Bangladesh to protect its mother language Bangla. The initiative is aimed at preserving and promoting mother languages.

Which country has most languages in Asia?

The Briefing

• Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse country in the world, with approximately 840 different languages spoken across the islands.
• In second place, Indonesia has around 711 different languages. Only 20\% of the population speaks the national language of Bahasa Indonesian at home.

How many countries have official languages in India?

There are 22 official languages of India including Hindi and English. There are at least 5 countries where Indian languages has got the official status. These 5 countries are Bangladesh, Fiji, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Singapore. In total there are at least 11 countries where Indian languages are widely spoken.

Should Hindi be India’s sole official language?

At this point, after several language-linked agitations, the question has been almost put to rest — Hindi cannot claim to be India’s sole official language. While the Constitution’s Article 343 says “the official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script,” it also empowers the use of English indefinitely.

Is Hindi the official language of France and Germany?

In France, over 88\% of people identify their official language as French and in Germany, over 95\% of people speak German or call it their mother tongue. The argument that Hindi is to India what these languages are to their respective countries hence falls flat.

Should India’s standardised tongue be one language?

Rather than designate any one language as the nation’s standardised tongue, it makes more sense to invest in the development of other regional languages and thus preserve India’s multiculturalism through multilinguism.