{"id":15196,"date":"2018-02-21T18:40:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15196"},"modified":"2018-02-21T18:40:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:40:06","slug":"international-mother-language-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15196","title":{"rendered":"International Mother Language Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/sites\/default\/files\/imld2018-poster-en.jpg\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"International Mother Language Day Poster\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you might know, today is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/international-days\/international-mother-language-day\">International Mother Language Day<\/a>. The theme this year is &#8220;Linguistic diversity and multilingualism: keystones of sustainability and peace&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To do my bit for multilinguism, I&#8217;m currently learning Swedish, Russian, Romanian and Slovak, and practising other languages, especially French and Welsh. So far today I&#8217;ve learnt a bit more Romanian and Russian, listened to some Welsh language radio, and read a bit of Swedish. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight I studied some Swedish and Slovak, spoke English and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/laala.htm\">Laala<\/a>, read in English, Latin and Scots, and sang in English, Welsh, French, Zulu and Church Slavonic.<\/p>\n<p>What languages have you spoken, read, heard, written, sung and\/or studied today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might know, today is International Mother Language Day. The theme this year is &#8220;Linguistic diversity and multilingualism: keystones of sustainability and peace&#8221;. To do my bit for multilinguism, I&#8217;m currently learning Swedish, Russian, Romanian and Slovak, and practising other languages, especially French and Welsh. So far today I&#8217;ve learnt a bit more Romanian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,10,13,51,52,55,60,67,77,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-language","category-language-learning","category-romanian","category-russian","category-scots","category-slovak","category-swedish","category-welsh","category-zulu-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}