Language Movement

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 BokmÃ¥l 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

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