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On the eve of International Mother Language Day, which is celebrated worldwide on February 21st with the aim of promoting linguistic culture and diversity, as well as multilingualism, and was proclaimed by UNESCO, a presentation on the topic of the Bosnian language was held at the Bosnian House as part of the Bosnian supplementary school.
The introduction to the program and a brief overview of the Bosnian language and the International Day of Languages was given by Mr. Eldin Bašić. He explained the importance of the mother tongue and the development of the Bosnian language through the centuries. He cited and showed many pieces of evidence of the existence of the Bosnian language over a very long period, such as the charter of the ban of Kulin and the Humačka tablet. The children had the opportunity to listen and learn that the Kulin charter is considered the birth certificate of Bosnian statehood. From its content, it can be clearly seen that Bosnia already had an organized state and the institution of a sovereign ruler in the 12th century. 
The UNESCO General Assembly declared Mother Language Day in 1999, in memory of the students who were killed on February 21, 1952, in Dhaka, East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, because they were protesting that their mother tongue was not declared an official language. According to estimates, one language disappears in the world almost every day, and linguists predict that of the approximately 6,000 languages, more than half, even up to 90 percent, will die out by the end of the 21st century.
Teacher Azra pointed out the fact that in BiH, unfortunately, language is considered one of the main political issues, and that the use of the Bosnian language causes fear and prejudice in many people. That is why, for the past few years, the BiH supplementary school in Birmingham has been regularly holding presentations on the importance of the mother tongue in order to get them thinking about their homeland and the language of their parents. The main goal is to encourage the students of the BiH supplementary school in Birmingham in an interesting way through works and songs to get involved in researching BiH treasures and the history of the Bosnian language, and to save the mother tongue from oblivion. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][cq_vc_cqcarousel images=”3187,3189,3191,3193,3195,3197,3199,3183,3181,3177,3175,3173,3171,3169,3167,3165,3163,3161,3159″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
