What is a person's identity? How do we define an individual?
When a child speaks its first word known as the mother language, it gives itself an identity.
It is also said that the mother language is the in-born language, which a baby has already familiarized even in the gestation of the mother before it was born.
First announced by @UNESCO on 17 November 1999, #InternationalMotherLanguageDay🌎 is celebrated annually on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism.
From Santhali to Kui, Odisha is house to more than 21 languages and 74 dialects. Of the 21 tribal languages, seven have their own scripts. However, Odia is used as the medium of communication in dictionaries.
This year, the creative team of @QLS_Bhubneswar collaboratively tapped into the many forms of mother languages that are popular in Odisha.
Here are some of the highlighted artworks of our talented artists.