International Mother Language Day

Monday, February 21, 2022

For 22 years, 21 February has been celebrated as International Mother Language Day. On this day, the United Nations highlights the significance of native languages as a cultural asset because many languages are endangered. And since many languages do not have an online presence, multilinguialsim online can be strengthened.

The RISM catalog has pieces in many languages. Go to the Advanced Search and select Language to search for vocal pieces in different languages. Enter the name of the language in English or German (such as Italian or Italienisch).

You can search for the following languages in the RISM catalog:

• Afrikaans
• Arabic
• Aragonese
• Armenian
• Australian languages
• Basque
• Bengali
• Bosnian
• Bulgarian
• Catalan
• Celtic (Other)
• Chinese
• Creoles and Pidgins (Other)
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Estonian
• Ethiopic
• Fijian
• Finnish
• French
• French, Middle
• French, Old
• Friulano
• Galacian
• German
• German, Old High
• Greek, Ancient
• Greek, Modern
• Hebrew
• Hungarian
• Icelandic
• Irish
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Latin
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Low German
• Luxembourgish
• Macedonian
• Maori
• Middle English
• Middle High German
• Mongolian
• Neapolitan
• Northern Frisian
• Norwegian
• Occitan
• Oirat
• Old Church Slavonic
• Persian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romani
• Romanian
• Romansh
• Russian
• Sanskrit
• Scots
• Serbian
• Sicilian
• Slavic
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Sorbian
• Sorbian: Lower Sorbian
• Sorbian: Upper Sorbian
• South American Indian (Other)
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Swiss German
• Tagalog
• Tatar
• Thai
• Tibetan
• Tsimshian
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese
• Welsh
• West Frisian
• Yiddish

Image from Pixabay.

Category: New at RISM