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Justice for Everyone and Every Language

FEBRUARY 21 MOTHER TONGUE DAY

Justice for Everyone and Every Language

A demand for justice in Armenian, Laz language, Kurdish, Zazaki, Georgian, Adyghean, Greek, Pontus Greek, Ladino, Assyrian and Turkish...

21 February 2019 Hikmet Adal

“Living Languages and Dialects”: Right to Mother Tongue Education

MOTHER TONGUE DAY

“Living Languages and Dialects”: Right to Mother Tongue Education

Students who choose take the two-hour-per-week “Living Languages and Dialects” course offered in some primary and secondary schools often say of their mother tongues: “I can understand but can’t speak”. After a while, understanding will not be enough anymore; they will want to speak, write and create. But Is it possible that these courses can be effective?

21 February 2017 Haluk Kalafat

#anadilindebarış: Peace in Mother Tongue

MOTHER TONGUE DAY / VIDEO IN 14 LANGUAGES

#anadilindebarış: Peace in Mother Tongue

We have called out “peace!” in Adyghe, Abkhazian, Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Homshetsi, Judaeo Spanish, Kurdish, Lazuri, Ossetic, Romanian, Romaic, Assyrian and Turkish. Because we know that peace is beautiful in every language and much more beautiful when said in every language.

22 February 2016