Language movement may imply any of the following:
- Language specific social/political movements
- The Bengali Language Movement, which is commemorated as 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 conflict 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
Famous quotes containing the words language and/or movement:
“I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen—but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover’s apprehension.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)