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Calendar for Cultural Diversity 2021 Stronger Together Calendar for Cultural Diversity 2021 Stronger together Calendar for Cultural Diversity 2021 Stronger together Calendar for Cultural Diversity 2021 Lily Rose – Year 4 – Excelsior Public School United Nations (UN) observances 2021 Languages for 2021 Australian English reflects the influence of the Darug people in words including boomerang, corroboree, dingo, koala, kookaburra, wallaby and the bush call coo-ee, which were all derived from The United Nations observes designated international days, weeks, years and decades, each with a January Dharug languages. theme or topic. These observances contribute to the achievement of the purposes of the UN Charter Tongan (Faka-Tongan) is an official and national language in the Kingdom of Tonga. It is a member of and promote awareness of and action on important political, social, cultural, humanitarian or human the Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages and is spoken by about 103,000 people mainly August rights issues. They provide a useful means for the promotion of international and national action and in Tonga. It is also spoken in Samoa, Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand, Niue and Wallis Island. It is Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 130 million people mainly in West Punjab in stimulate interest in United Nations activities and programs. Many of the themes are relevant to the closely related to Niuean, Wallisian and Samoan. Tongan is mainly a spoken language. Pakistan and in East Punjab in India. There are also significant numbers of Punjabi speakers in the UK, school curriculum and community and can be observed at school and/or used as focal points Canada, the UAE, the USA, Saudi Arabia and Australia. Punjabi is one of India’s 22 official languages in lesson planning. It was first written by missionaries in the early 19th century using a number of different spelling and it is the first official language in East Punjab. In Pakistan Punjabi is the second most widely- systems. The current system was promulgated by the Privy Council of Tonga in 1943. A few literary spoken language but has no official status. For more information on the following years and decades see the UN website. publications have been made in Tongan, including translations of the Bible and the Book of Mormon. was written with a version of the Urdu ( یباجنپ) Other publications include daily newspapers and weekly and monthly magazines. In West Punjab, from the 11th century, Punjabi alphabet known as Shahmukhi which means ‘from the King’s mouth’. The Shahmukhi alphabet There are almost 4,500 students from Tongan speaking backgrounds in NSW public schools. currently used was developed in Pakistan in 2016. It is written from right to left in horizontal lines. In East Punjab, Punjabi ( ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ) is written with the Gurmukhi alphabet which was standardised The traditional Tongan calendar was based on the phases of the moon and had 13 months. The main during the 16th century by Guru Angad Dev Ji. Gurmukhi means ‘from the mouth of the Guru’. It is purpose of the calendar for Tongans was to determine the time for the planting and cultivation of written from left to right in horizontal lines and is the alphabet used in this calendar. yams, which were Tonga’s most important staple food. Mid December to early January is Lihamui and mid-January to early February is Vaimu’a. There are approximately 5,300 students from Punjabi speaking backgrounds in NSW public schools. February September 2021 - International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour Spanish (español/ castellano) is a Romance language with approximately 470 million speakers, 410 Swahili (Kiswahili) is a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania, Burundi, Congo (Kinshasa), Kenya, million of whom speak it as a first language while the remainder speak it as a second language. A Mayotte, Mozambique, Oman, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda, UAE and the USA. Around 2021 - International Year of Peace and Trust significant number of people also speak Spanish as a foreign language. It is the language of Spain and 5 million people speak Swahili as a native language and a further 135 million speak it as a second an official language of another 19 countries mainly in Central and South America. language. Swahili is an official language of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya and is used as a lingua franca 2021 - International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development throughout East Africa. Spanish is written using the Latin script. Spanish first appeared in writing in the form of notes in Latin 2021 - International Year of Fruits and Vegetables religious texts dating from the 11th century. During the 12th century, law codes were being translated The earliest known Swahili documents were official letters to the Portuguese people of Mozambique into Spanish and in the 13th century Spanish prose and poetry began to flourish. in 1711 and an epic poem in 1728 written in the Arabic script. With the arrival of the European colonial International decades currently observed by the United Nations include: powers in East Africa Swahili was used as the main language of administration and the Latin alphabet There are around 8,000 students from Spanish speaking public in NSW public schools. was increasingly used to write it. 2021 – 2030 United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration March There are over 700 students from Swahili speaking backgrounds in NSW public schools. 2021 – 2030 International Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development Burmese ( ) or Myanmar, is a member of the Lolo-Burmese branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is spoken mainly in Myanmar (Burma), where it is the official language. There are October 2019 – 2028 Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace about 33 million people who speak Burmese as a first language. There are also thought to be another Mongolian (монгол) is an Altaic language spoken by approximately 5 million people in Mongolia, 10 million who speak it as a second language. Standard Burmese is spoken in the Irrawaddy River China, Afghanistan and Russia. There are a number of closely related varieties of Mongolian which are 2018 – 2028 International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development” valley. spoken mainly in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China. 2018 – 2027 Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty Burmese dialects in other parts of Burma differ from the standard, but they are all more or less Through the centuries there have been several systems used for writing Mongolian based on Uyghur, mutually intelligible. Tibetan and Latin alphabets but in 1941 the Cyrillic alphabet was officially adopted. Traditional 2016 – 2025 United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition Mongolian script is now taught to some extent in schools, though it is mainly used for decorative The Burmese or Myanmar script developed from the Mon script, which was adapted from a southern purposes by artists, designers, calligraphers and poets and in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous 2014 – 2024 United Nations Decade of Sustainable Energy for All Indian script during the 8th century. The rounded appearance of letters is a result of the use of palm Region of China. Traditional Mongolian script is written from left to right in vertical columns running leaves as the traditional writing material. Straight lines would have torn the leaves. The Burmese from top to bottom. name for the script is ca-lonh ‘round script’. The earliest known inscriptions in the Burmese script The Lunar Calendar and the Year of the Ox and the Wombat date from the 11th century. There are more than 800 students from Mongolian speaking backgrounds in NSW public schools. The Lunar New Year 4719 will be celebrated on 12 February 2021. It celebrates Xin Nian, the There are about 750 students from Burmese speaking backgrounds in NSW public schools. November Chinese New Year, Solnal, the Korean New Year, Tết, the Vietnamese New Year and also Losar, Malayalam (മലയാളം) is a Southern Dravidian language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Kerala April in southern India, but also in other Indian states. There are about 35.5 million speakers of Malayalam the New Year celebrations for Tibet. Traditionally Shōgatsu, the Japanese New Year was also celebrated on this date but French is a Romance language spoken by about 354 million people worldwide. It is the third most in India. There are also many speakers of Malayalam in other countries, including around 52,000 in since 1873, the official Japanese New Year has been celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar, on January 1 of each spoken language in Europe, after German and English, and is also spoken in parts of Africa, North Australia. year. In most of these nations the Gregorian calendar is used for civil purposes but the lunar calendar is used to determine America, South America, Asia and Oceania. It is the language of France and an official language of The name Malayalam means “mountain region”, and comes from mala (mountain) and alam (region). festivals and auspicious dates such as weddings and moving house. another 27 nations. Originally the name referred to the land and was later used to refer to the language. French was widely used as a diplomatic language from the 17th century until the middle of the 20th This lunar new year is based on the traditional Chinese Agricultural Calendar which is lunisolar, primarily lunar century when it was replaced by English. It is still used in many international organisations. The current Malayalam alphabet has evolved from the Grantha alphabet, brought to the southwest but partially solar, guided by the movement of the moon as well as the sun. It is commonly called the lunar French is written using the Latin script and first appeared in writing in 842 CE. Before then, Latin was of India in the 8th or 9th century, to a systemised Malayalam alphabet in the early 13th century.
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