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On International Mother Language Day, we celebrate the rich linguistic and cultural diversity that defines our Union, as well as the importance of protecting and promoting mother tongues across Europe.

The EU is home to:
🌍 24 official languages
🎉 60 regional or minority languages spoken by 40 million people

Multilingualism is a founding principle of our Union and part of what makes our continent so vibrant.

This diversity is our strength.

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Frischling

@EUCommission less than in Ghana, for example. The nostalgic clinging to different languages is laughable - downtown a certain degree it hinders free information flow and free trade, which are some of the more important central things of the EU. I like diversity as in different views on the same subject, and all languages in the EU are easily translated, so that's fine, but once you have to get a translator for the translator, to show people your product, you're basically f***ed.