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IMLM activities now on ACT Government’s official Agenda
Here is a great news, ACT Legislative Assembly passed a motion on International Mother Language Day observation and other mother language issues which will be very supportive to the International Mother Language Movement’s (IMLM) such activities in Canberra.
The motion was proposed by the Opposition Leader Hon Alistair Coe, MLA and was accepted by the members. Our Language Walk was well acknowledged by the members of both sides in the Assembly.
IMLM also highly acknowledged that our Annual Mother Language Walk been joined by ACT Minister and Shadow Minist...
IMLM post Walk 2016 PRESS RELEASE
The International Mother Language Day Walk is getting bigger and better, according to the president of Canberra’s International Mother Language Movement committee Mr Ziaul Hoque.
Sunday, February 21, on which the UNESCO-designated day is held, saw a large crowd of multilingual Canberra walking across the lake from the flag display under Questacon to Commonwealth Park in a show of strength for the use and acceptance of diverse languages under the 2016 slogan, “Walk together, talk together.”
Members of many diverse language groups waving their association’s ...
Preserve an endangered language by turning it into art
One way to preserve an endangered language is to turn it into art. For over twenty years, Moroccan artist Hamid Kachmar has been using his paintings to help keep alive an embattled, indigenous language. Tifinagh is the ancient script of the Berbers, a minority ethnic group in Morocco to which Kachmar belongs.
Tifinagh has been suppressed historically in Morocco, but Kachmar makes the script's intricate symbols the main element of his colorful art. In some pieces, like the first one below, "Timitar 1 Symbols in Symbiosis," the symbols are presented in neat fashion, as ...
