Thai-Bangladeshis commemorate International Mother Language Day in Pattaya

Thai-Bangladeshis gathered on Wednesday to commemorate International Mother Language Day in Pattaya. The community commemorated the day at the Unique Regency Hotel on Pratumnak Soi 5.

Dozens of residents, esteemed guests, and other members of the Pattaya Thai-Bangladeshi Community attended the event.

International Mother Language Day is globally observed and formally recognised by the United Nations. The day aims to promote the preservation and protection of all languages used by peoples of the world, according to UNESCO. It is especially significant to the Bangladeshi people as the day was their initiative.

The people of Bangladesh fought to have their language recognised in the late 1940s and early 1950s in East Bengal (now Bangladesh). This resulted in an incident in 1952 in…