The international day of native language is celebrated all over the world, as a sign of remembering the students which were murdered on the 21st of February 1952 in Daki in Eastern Pakistan. The students protested about their language and why it hasn’t been official. The UNESCO in 1999 declared this day as the International Day of Native Language.
The Roma language and the activity to standardize it are worked upon in the past four or five decades. The declaration of the standardization of the Roma language was brought at the fourth IRU Congress which was held in 1990 in Warsaw, Poland and the directions were defined in order to nominate the standardization and codification of the Roma language.
The Roma language belongs to the Indo-European group of languages. The Roma language has 17 different dialects. The international day of native language is highlighted every year of the UN as the moment of language richness.
According to estimates of the UNESCO, there are around 6.000 languages around the world. Around 2500 of them are in danger of disappearing. “A sign which proves that one language is endangered is when the parents don’t talk to their children in their native language” There’s one Latin saying “Your knowledge of languages, shows your value” (Quot linguas calles, tot homines vales).
