The world marks
April 23 as the annual global observance of the United Nations English Language Day. The UN observance day, which is specifically set aside to inculcate respect, promote awareness, history, culture, and achievements associated with the language, was first celebrated in 2010. Various engaging, fun-filled activities like quizzes, recitation and book-reading are organized to celebrate the event.
The commemoration of this day stems from the UN initiative to honour its 6 languages’ cultural diversity, celebrate multilingualism, in the international platform.
There are six different days dedicated to six languages by the Department of Global Communications of the UN to uniformly champion the international body’s all 6 official languages. English Language is one of them.
The five others include:
– French Language Day (March 20)
-Spanish Language Day (April 23)
– Chinese Language Day (April 20)
-Russian Language Day (June 6)
-Arabic Language Day (December 18)
