বাংলাদেশ · Bangladesh
নমস্কার। এটা আমাদের গল্প।
The country that gave the world Mother Language Day gave its Deaf people a day of their own.
Access on this page: Signed: Bangla Sign Language — pending How this page is tested
Bangladesh's identity was built on a language: 21 February, the day students died for Bangla in 1952, is now International Mother Language Day for the whole world. In 2009 the government declared Bangla Sign Language an official language. On 26 January 2012 an inter-ministerial meeting made 7 February Bangla Sign Language Day. And in 2013 the Rights and Protection of Persons with Disabilities Act wrote it into statute: Bangla Sign Language defined as the Deaf community's own, dynamic like any language, and — section 16 — the right to take sign language as a first language. The Society of the Deaf and Sign Language Users, founded in 2008, has pushed ever since for qualified interpreters on the national broadcaster. The law is ours. The day is ours. The delivery is what we build.
Bangla Sign Language video — this story, in our language
A named Bangladeshi Deaf creator tells this page's story in Bangla Sign Language. The video is the page, and the text is its transcript's cousin. This video existing is the reason this page is allowed to exist.
We are the people who made a day for our language.
Now we make it delivered — ourselves.
What do you want to do?
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I want access
Watch.Understand.Belong.
Television, film, and services — in Bangla Sign Language, captions, or audio description.
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I create access
Create.Get paid.Be seen.
Deaf signers, interpreters, captioners, audio describers — your work, your name, your income.
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I provide access
One API.Every screen.
Platforms, governments, cinemas, companies — deliver real access with one integration.
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I back access
Host.Sponsor.Invest.
The builders who will put a language with its own day on every screen — be part of the firsts.
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More than one of these can be yours. The access is for you, and you can be paid to help make it.
Access in Bangladesh today
The law now says:
Bangla Sign Language is the Deaf community's own language, dynamic and changing like any other — defined in the Rights and Protection of Persons with Disabilities Act 2013 — and every person with a disability has the right to education in a manner convenient to them and to sign language as a first language — section 16. It was declared an official language in 2009, and 7 February has been Bangla Sign Language Day since 2012.
And we know the exhausting part: interpreters on national television whose sign language the Deaf community itself finds thin — the reason the Society of the Deaf and Sign Language Users exists — and a right to learn in sign language that depends on a school having someone who signs it.
Our language has a day and a law. The delivery comes next — made by us. That is what ally is: Deaf and blind creators, paid to make the access — Bangla Sign Language, captions, audio description — delivered to any screen.
In plain words
The law is on your side. What is missing is the service — and that is what gets built here, with the community.
Why captions alone are not enough → Why sign language
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