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| 2022 |
Aleut language
The last native speaker of Copper Island Aleut died, rendering the language extinct.
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| July 2022 |
Official languages of the United Nations
UN Swahili Language Day is created, making Portuguese and Swahili the only non-official UN languages with a dedicated language day.
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| June 2022 |
Official languages of the United Nations
UN General Assembly adopts resolution encouraging use of non-official languages like Bengali, Hindi, Persian, Portuguese, Swahili, and Urdu.
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| March 2021 |
Aleut language
Vera Timoshenko, the last native speaker of the Bering dialect of Aleut, dies at age 93 in Nikolskoye, Bering Island, Kamchatka.
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| 2020 |
Official languages of the United Nations
UN Portuguese Language Day is created.
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| November 2019 | The Tamil Nadu state government issued an order to add 9,000 new words to the Tamil language vocabulary, expanding its lexical resources. |
| 2018 |
Official languages of the United Nations
UN news and media website begins including translations in Hindi, Portuguese, and Swahili.
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| 2017 | Between 2017 and 2018, 5,820 artifacts were found in Keezhadi archaeological site and sent for scientific dating. |
| 2015 |
Official languages of the United Nations
Nepal's Vice President Parmananda Jha publicly expressed strong support for including Hindi as an official language of the UN.
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| 2011 |
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
Census recorded the population of South Tyrol as 453,000, with Italian being the first language of 26% of the population, excluding 51,000 who listed their language as 'Other'.
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| September 2011 |
Official languages of the United Nations
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and proposed adding Turkish as an official language of the United Nations.
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| July 19 2011 |
Official languages of the United Nations
General Assembly adopts Resolution A/RES/65/311 on multilingualism, calling for equal working conditions and resources for all six official languages.
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| 2010 |
Official languages of the United Nations
UN's Department of Public Information announced an initiative of six 'language days' to celebrate linguistic diversity and cross-cultural communication.
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