Today is International Mother Language Day and our blog is turning multilingual today. We are hosting a series of blog posts by different authors, illustrators, parents, educators and children – sharing their thoughts on languages and more. International Mother Language Day is an observance held annually on 21 February worldwide to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. 2015 is the 15th anniversary of International Mother Language Day.
This post was sent in by Abhay Barad – Aser Associate Gujarat. Abhay started his journey with ASER in 2011, His interest is in statistics and data analysis. He is good at networking with NGOs, College and Universities. For today – International Mother Language Day – Abhay has written a poem on his mother tongue Gujarati -and he hails from Junagadh in Gujarat
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