Language movement
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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