The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted a resolution on multilingualism which mentions the Bangla language.
With Bangla, the UNGA will use Hindi, Urdu, Portuguese, Kiswahili, and Persian as unofficial languages.
On Friday, the UNGA adopted an India-sponsored resolution on multilingualism. For the first time in history, the internal communication and dissemination of messages in the assembly will also take place in the Bangla language.
While the UN has six official languages — English, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and French — the addition of Bangla, Hindi and Urdu will instrumentalise and institutionalise their usage as mediums for disseminating UN information.
The first-time mentioning of Hindi, Bangla and Urdu will also help in “Promoting, protecting and preserving diversity of languages and cultures globally, as well as of improving the efficiency, performance and transparency of the Organization,” noted the draft of the resolution.
In terms of population, Bangla is the 7th language in the world. Bangla is the mother tongue of 33 crore people across the world.
Multilingualism becomes vital to spreading the idea and values of an organisation to the world, which consists of a population with diversified languages.
According to United Nations (UN), the assembly recognises multilingualism as a core value for its organisation.
