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Language Festival in Bashkortostan
  • Language is the best mediator for establishment of friendship and accord (Erasmus of Rotterdam).

  • Language is the environment where the world and " I " join together (H.G.Gadamer).

  • People seek to unite, and language is a peculiar catalyst for unification processes (V. Rusu).

  • The existence of people is tightly bound by their language (G. Bataille).

  • Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order (A. France).

  • The world of language is as deep and infinite as the world of nature (V.L.Ibragimova).

  • Languages of different nations are just the facets of one diamond (V.D.Osipov).

  • Knowing many languages means to have a lot of keys to one lock (Voltaire).

  • To learn a language a desire is more important than necessity (St.Augustine).

  • The study of a foreign language is widening the scope of all we can learn in general (H.G.Gadamer).

  • The more languages you know the more of a person you are (A.P. Chechov).

  • Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own (I. Goethe).

  • The greatest treasure of every nation is its language (M.A.Sholokhov).

  • To get some knowledge of a nation’s morals you should first learn its language (Pythagoras of Samos).

  • The language of a nation is the best, never fading and always blossoming flower of its spiritual life (K.D.Ushinsky).

  • Language is the vessel where national ideas and beliefs are cast, preserved and passed on (I.Gerder).

  • Language is an eternal stream, holding the new on the wave of the old (A.S.Sobolev).

  • The word is the greatest instrument of life (V.G. Korolenko).

  • Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it (L. Wittgenstein).

  • Language is the ford of the river of time (V.M.Illich-Svitych).

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15.06.2022

Dear Friends! We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Festival of Languages of the Peoples of Russia and Belarus, which will be held on December 20, 2022 at the Southwest State University (Russian Federation) and Polotsk State University (Republic of Belarus). We are waiting for your applications until December 12, 2022. Welcome!

 

21.04.2021

Dear friends! We invite you to the II International Linguistic Festival in Kursk that will be held on April 23-24, 2021.

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The II International Language Festival in Bashkortostan, which coincided with the International Translation Day, took place on September 29-30 at the Bashkir State Pedagogical University named after M. Akmulla. The festival brought together about 400 people who acknowledged unique language diversity and the value of the human language in general. Compared to the last year the number of guests from other towns and cities had grown (61 people), among them were the project supporters from the Republic of Bashkortostan, Irkutsk, Sverdlovsk, Ulyanovsk and Moscow regions. Besides, there were also participants from Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The main events of the festival took place on the first day.

That day the participants and guests had the opportunity to hear 35 languages from 6 different language families: Slavic, Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Austroasiatic, Semitic and also a faraway Korean language. The presentations were made by the participants from all the parts of the republic – Ufa, Salavat, Sibay, Blagoveshchensk, Mishkino, Davlekanovo, Belebey, Dyurtyuli, Sterlitamak and Neftekamsk. The representatives of other parts of Russia (Moscow, Irkutsk, Ulyanovsk, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Tagil) and foreign countries (Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Germany, Armenia, Vietnam) kindly shared their knowledge of languages. The presentations were held simultaneously in 7 lecture halls and  grouped according to several topics: “Languages of international communication”, “Languages of nations of Bashkortostan”, “European Language Union”, “Slavic chamber”, “Language as a mirror of history and culture”, “Rainbow of the world’s languages”, “Dialog of languages and cultures”. The most common as well as less familiar languages of the world were presented to the audience.

The highlight of the festival was the artificial language Esperanto created in the 19th century as a means of communication for the world community. The presentations prepared by the Bashkir Esperantists drew the attention of the audience and got a lot of questions. Praiseworthy and beautiful performances were devoted to the national language of the Republic. Love and respect to it were embodied in a special literary and musical piece “Praise you, my Bashkir language”. It is pleasant to note that the students of the Bashkir State University took an active part in the work of the II International Language Festival. Especially notable was “Slavic Chamber” workshop. Special guests of this section were Dr. Verka Sasheva Ivanova, senior lecturer of the Modern Bulgarian Language Department of St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo (the Republic of Bulgaria), and M. O. Sadykova-Lisovskaya, the chairperson of the Polish Culture and Education Centre of the Republic of Bashkortostan  “Vozrozhdeniye”.

The students made reports on basic peculiarities of Slavic languages and presented them with a great enthusiasm. They had also prepared some literary and musical compositions, including poems and songs in the original languages, as well as their own translations of some Slavic poets’ works. The traditional presentations on II International Language Festival went well alongside with the 20 lectures that made the scope of the event much broader. And it’s pleasant to note that they were received very positively by our guests. The subjects of the lectures were completely various. The lectures covered the development of language and the actual necessity of international languages in a very simple way, the problem of how language reflects the world around us, brought up the topic of the Old Turkic runic characters and the Bashkir naming, introduced interesting linguistic ideas and cultural notes. As some of the participants said, during the first day of the festival they made new friends, got a lot of necessary information and lively impressions. The festival’s atmosphere let everyone realize that it’s better to learn a language with a curiosity and freedom rather than because of a severe necessity. The second day of the event proceeded with the cultural programme. After the closing ceremony, where participants and organizers received commemorative certificates, a tour of the capital of Bashkortostan was provided for all comers.  

List of 2012 Festival languages

Indo-European languages

-      Slavic (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Old Russian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech);

-      Romance (Spanish, Italian, Catalan, Portuguese,  French);

-      Germanic ( British English, American English, German, Luxembourgish);

-      Iranian (Ossetian, Persian);

-      Graeco-Phrygo-Armenian (Armenian, Greek).

Turkic languages (Bashkir, Kazakh, Tatar, Turkish, Chuvash)

Uralic languages

-      Finno-Ugric (Hungarian, Mari, Mordvinic (Erzya), Udmurt, Estonian).

Afroasiatic languages

-      Semitic (Arabic).

Austro-Asiatic languages (Vietnamese).

Sino-Tibetan languages (Chinese).

International language Esperanto

Runglish language

List of 2012 Festival lectures

  1. Linguistic tasks.
  2. The way languages organize the world.
  3. The development of language (general information).
  4. The development of language (in post-USSR time).
  5. Why do we need artificial languages?
  6. A native language, a native word.
  7. A native language is a sacred language, the language of my father and mother!
  8. A trip to German cities and towns.
  9. I am interested in Germany.
  10. The symbolic world of the Kazakh people.
  11. The Russian streets of Paris.
  12. My home is my castle.
  13. Phraseological units in English and Bashkir containing the component “colour”.
  14. What we hear and what we do not hear in other languages.
  15. The localization of software from English into Tatar.
  16. The interaction of the Tatar and Russian languages.
  17. The Language Festival: from the beginning until now.
  18. Mass Media as a means of learning the English language.
  19. The traditions of naming in Bashkir families at the turn of the century.
  20. Old Turkic script (Orkhon-Yenisey script).
  • Photo report
  • Video records

Internet resources about the II International Language Festival in Bashkortostan:

  1. the site of BSPU
  2. the site of UNESCO
  3. the site of BST 
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