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Chinese Language Day

Chinese Language Day is today, April 20. In 2010, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization. (UNESCO) recognized six languages as official
languages of the UN. Logically, they are the six most spoken languages in the
world. Chinese is one of these six languages. In recognition and
celebration of these languages, each language was given a special holiday.
In each case, the date was carefully selected to honor someone an
organization or event important to the people who speak the language.
The goals of Chinese Language
Day, is to
celebrate multi-lingual and cultural diversity,
and to recognize and celebrate Chinese as one of the six official languages
of the United Nations. The date of this special holiday also
pays tribute to Cang Jie, a legendary figure who invented Chinese characters
over 5,000 years ago.
Did You Know? Chinese is the native language of over 1
billion people.
There are over 200 Chinese dialects. Many of them are so
diverse, that they could be considered their own language group. For
example, if you spoke Cantonese to someone who speaks Shanainese, they would
recognize some words. But they'd have trouble understanding each other. The most
common Chinese language is Mandarin, which is the official language (or dialect) of
the People's Republic of China. It is also widely spoken in Taiwan, Malaysia
and Singapore. After Mandarin, the most commonly spoken Chinese languages,
or dialects, are: Wu, Shanghainese, Hongkongese, and Cantonese.

UNESCO Language Days
The six language days established by UNESCO are:
Language: |
Celebrated On: |
Comment: |
Arabic |
December 18 |
On December 18, 1973, the UN
General Assembly adopted Arabic as the sixth official UN language. |
Chinese |
April 20 |
This date pays tribute to Cang Jie, a legendary figure who invented Chinese characters
over 5,000 years ago. |
English |
April 23 |
Both the birth and death date of William
Shakespeare |
French |
March 20 |
Commemorates the founding anniversary of the Organisation
international de la Francophonie. |
Russian |
June 6 |
Honors
the birthday of Alexander Pushkin, the father of Russian literature. |
Spanish |
April 23 |
Honors
Spanish novelist, poet and playwright Don Miguel Cervantes Saavedra,
died on April 23. |
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