The Language Movement in Bangladesh is a study of the Bengali language. When the British withdrew from the Indian subcontinent in 1947, there were conflicts over land, religion, power, and language. Shakil Rabbi investigates the translingual and comparative rhetorical facets of debates over state languages in the former territory of East Pakistan. Combining digital humanities and translingualist methodologies, Shakil Rabbi investigates the rhetorical facets of this consequential debate over state languages in this postcolonial nation (UNESCO declared February 21st International Mother Language Day in recognition of this movement and Bangladesh recognizes it as a seminal event that directly led to national independence in 1971). Rabbi identifies the contours of the discourses and activities of this event to show the role of modernist, folk and traditional ideologies around communication and language in its rhetorics and it transformed into popular movements. The Language Movement in Bangladesh contributes to conversations around language rights and translingualist perspectives with its investigation of a real-world and politically explosive debate in a non-Western context.