Language
Bangla is our main language. Sometimes it’s called Bengali. Most of the people of our country speak in Banlga. More than 98 percent of the population it is the first language. It is written in its own script, derived from that of Sanskrit. Urdu is the language of several hundred thousand people, many of whom emigrated from India in the late 1940s.
The UNESCO has declared 21st February as The International Mother Language day to be observed in Paris in November 1999 globally in recognition of the sacrifices of the Bangla language martyrs who laid their lives for establishing the rightful place of Bangla.
UNESCO said-' 21st February be proclaimed International Mother Language Day throughout the world to commemorate the martyrs who sacrificed their lives on this very day in 1952’.