On November 26, 2025, linguists and linguistics enthusiasts celebrated World Linguistics Day from 70 cities, 34 countries, and 5 continents. We counted 127 greetings in total and we’re overjoyed to see the excitement for designating a day to celebrate linguistics in all its forms and we look forward to many World Linguistics Days of the future!
The Linguistic Association of Finland got in on the World Linguistics Day love:
And there were two video competitions launched in the UK to explain what linguistics is and why it’s important (in English) and what sign language linguistics is and why it’s important (in British Sign Language or International Sign) co-sponsored by the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, the British Association for Applied Linguistics, the University of Birmingham, Cambridge University Press, and the European Research Council. (Note that World Linguistics Day was first celebrated in the UK as National Linguistics Day.)
World Linguistics Day greetings were shared in 6 languages: Chinese, English, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Spanish. (We can definitely increase this number next year, right?)
Here’s the full list of countries that we saw Happy World Linguistics Day greetings from, for people who like browsing long lists, with subregions indicated when there were 3 or more:
- Aotearoa / New Zealand
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Brazil
- Canada (6 provinces)
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Czechia
- El Salvador
- Finland
- France
- Germany (4 states)
- Greece
- Hungary
- India
- Ireland
- Japan
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Turkiye
- United Kingdom (England, Scotland, and Wales)
- United Arab Emirates
- United States (17 states)
We’ve tried to compile all the World Linguistics Day greetings we saw across various social media sites, but there were way more than we were expecting so if we’ve accidentally missed you please let us know!
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