{"id":1398,"date":"2022-02-20T02:25:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T17:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.linguapax-asia.org\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2022-02-20T15:31:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T06:31:23","slug":"international-mother-language-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.linguapax-asia.org\/ja\/2022\/02\/international-mother-language-day\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) International Mother Language Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY is celebrated on the 21st of February each year to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s celebrate it with the wise words from Miyako Island, Okinawa Prefecture, that pay tribute to community bonds, as narrated in the video Hisamitsu Album (*Fujita-Round &amp; Hattori, 2019).<\/p>\n<p><strong>AGATA NU UTUZZA YUZZA TSUKAFU NU TUNAZU<br \/>\nCherish your close neighbors over your relatives far away.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The video documents traditional customs and language practices on Miyako Islands, including HAARI Festival for the Sea Gods, SHISHIMAI Lion Dance, UGAKI sumo wrestling, HOUGEN FUDA language tags, and more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u4e45\u677e\u30a2\u30eb\u30d0\u30e0\uff1a2015-2019\uff5cHisamatsu Album\uff5c \u65e5\u82f1\u8a9e\u7248, J\/E\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LfVOVuj_xXg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>*Hisamatsu Album was created as part of the research of a sociolinguist and also a board member of Linguapax Asia, Dr. Sachiyo Fujita-Round with her collaborator video artist, Katsuyuki Hattori.<\/p>\n<p>Their youtube page is as follows: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCtsbu9qQ7GUiB558D4z4Brg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCtsbu9qQ7GUiB558D4z4Brg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY is celebrated on the 21st of February each year to promote awareness of ling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linguapax-asia.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linguapax-asia.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linguapax-asia.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linguapax-asia.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linguapax-asia.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.linguapax-asia.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/www.linguapax-asia.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linguapax-asia.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linguapax-asia.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linguapax-asia.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linguapax-asia.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}