Language movement

Language movement

Language movement may imply any of the following:

;Language specific social/political movements:
*The Bengali Language Movement, which is commemorated by the International Mother Language Day declared by UNESCO and Language Movement Day in Bangladesh
*The Urdu movement, led by Tamaddun Majlish
*The Language Freedom Movement, which opposes the Gaelic revival movement
*The English-only movement in the United States
*The Norwegian language struggle between Bokmål and Nynorsk linguistic forms
*A number of language revival, linguistic purist and Language secessionist movements

;Other uses
*A Plain Language Movement to promote the use of Plain language, mainly Plain English


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