This hour is a special hour of content celebrating languages! Hosted (in English) and collected/edited by Jenny, close to 40 different people contributed over thirty languages to fill our airwaves in celebration of "International Mother Language Day" which is observed every year to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. We've included a list of languages featured, below - if your language is missing reach out to us! We'd love to do this again in the future and include even more! Contributions included one-word greetings, radio shout outs, stories, poems, and personal thoughts and reflections, interspersed with music. For languages, in our spoken sections, you will hear Tagalog, Gaelic, Slovak, Italian, Hungarian, Lik’wala, Czech, Serbian, Dutch, Korean, Arabic, Mandarin, Yoruba, Telugu, Turkish, Portuguese, Spanish, Tamil, Flemish, Vietnamese, Gujarati, Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi, Polish, Farsi/Persian, Khmer, Russian, French, German, Hebrew, and Danish.

The playlist of music on today's episode is as follows:

"Sluníčko-Hřej(TheSunSong)" by Louisa Krátká (unreleased)

"Assuf Ag Assuf" by Tinariwen off the album Idrache (Traces of the Past)

"Woyhenna" by Songhoy Blues off the album Heritage

"DE ZEE EN MIJN ZUSJE" by Hurryman (Robert Hurryman), off an upcoming album due out in April 2025

"Déjà" by N NAO off the album Nouveau Language

"lyenogie" by Sonia Aimy off the album LIGHT IMOLE

and

"Tambor Chamou" by João Selva off the album Onda

For more information about "International Mother Language Day" you can visit https://www.un.org/en/observances/mother-language-day

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