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Bangla
is the 6th largest
spoken language of the world. It is the official language of Bangladesh.This
language offshoots directly from Sanskrit, stem of the Indo-European
language.
Bangla is widely spoken in eastern part of India, The Andamans
island, Pakistan,Singapore, UK and Canada. A very dynamic language. First non-European to
receive Nobel prize in literature was Rabindranath
Tagore in 1913, was a Bangali poet.
The UN approved 21st February from
the year 2000 to celebrate as International Motherlanguage
Day.nevertheless to mention initiative to commemorate this day goes back to
21st February 1952 then many Bangalis were killed by the brutal police
forces of the Pakistan govenment while defying them heroically.
The most
prominent language martyrs are Rafique,Salam,Barkat,and Jobbar.Pakistan
Government tried by all means to establish Urdu as the state language of
entire Pakistan although majority Banglaspeaking of the population was
from East Pakistan.
In the year 1948 said arrogantly the founder president
of Pakistan Quaid-E-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah that Urdu and Urdu will be the
state language of Pakistan.
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