Language movement may imply any of the following:
- Language specific social/political movements
- The Bengali Language Movement, which is commemorated as the International Mother Language Day declared by UNESCO and Language Movement Day in Bangladesh
- The Urdu movement, led by Tamaddun Majlish
- The Language Freedom Movement, which opposes the Gaelic revival movement
- The English-only movement in the United States
- The Norwegian language conflict between Bokmål and Nynorsk linguistic forms
- A number of language revival, linguistic purist and Language secessionist movements
- Other uses
- A Plain Language Movement to promote the use of Plain language, mainly Plain English
Famous quotes containing the words language and/or movement:
“Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, & what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, & what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way;Mall this comes of Authorship.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were “anti-family.” . . . It was motherhood that got me into the movement in the first place. I became an activist after recognizing how excruciatingly personal the political was to me and my sons. It was the women’s movement that put self-esteem back into “just a housewife,” rescuing our intelligence from the junk pile of “instinct” and making it human, deliberate, powerful.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)