World Linguistics Day

In April, at the LingComm25 conference, we found out that the UK has been celebrating National Linguistics Day on November 26, and many lingcommers got excited at the idea of taking these celebrations international.

Apparently November 26th is National Linguistics Day in the UK because it's de Saussure's birthday??Just found this out from @adamcschembri.bsky.social at #LingComm25 and the chat immediately goes wildWorld Linguistics Day, anyone???#linguistics

— Gretchen McCulloch (@gretchenmcc.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T15:35:41.981Z

We’re now exactly a month until World Linguistics Day! Looking forward to seeing what people do in celebration. It’s always great to have an excuse to share something (serious or silly) about linguistics.

Make sure to use the hashtag #WorldLinguisticsDay on whatever platform you’re sharing on so we can all find each other!

Other national and international language-related days: International Mother Language Day (Unesco), Sign Languages Day (UN), Official Languages Day (Canada), saints days for Hildegard of Bingen (one of the first conlangers) and Gottschalk (patron of languages, linguists, princes, translators, lost vocations), World Emoji Day.