{"id":574,"date":"2008-01-01T19:34:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T18:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/01\/international-year-of-languages\/"},"modified":"2008-01-01T19:34:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T18:34:22","slug":"international-year-of-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"International Year of Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2008 has been declared International Year of Languages by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/News\/Press\/docs\/2007\/ga10592.doc.htm\">United Nations<\/a>. Part of their aim is redress the balance between English and the five other official languages used in the UN (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish), and they hope that the pursuit of multilingualism will act &#8220;as a means of promoting, protecting and preserving diversity of languages and cultures globally&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year, by the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2008 has been declared International Year of Languages by the United Nations. Part of their aim is redress the balance between English and the five other official languages used in the UN (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish), and they hope that the pursuit of multilingualism will act &#8220;as a means of promoting, protecting and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}