Kyrgyzstan's parliament passes sweeping language reforms, curtailing Russian use and sparking public backlash over practicality, rights, and inclusivity timesca.com/experts-warn... #Kyrgyzstan #LanguagePolicy #CulturalIdentity #RussianLanguage #PublicDebate
Experts Warn of Rights Violati...
#LanguagePolicy
Kyrgyzstan's parliament passes sweeping language reforms, curtailing Russian use and sparking public backlash over practicality, rights, and inclusivity https://timesca.com/experts-warn-of-rights-violations-in-kyrgyzstans-language-reform-push/ #Kyrgyzstan #LanguagePolicy #CulturalIdentity #RussianLanguage #PublicDebate
🇪🇺 EU
🔴 EU Pushback on Catalan as Official Language
🔸 Spain proposed Catalan, Basque & Galician as official EU languages to secure a 2023 minority gov’t deal.
🔸 But countries like France, Germany & Sweden oppose, citing cost & legal impact.
🔸 France rejects it partly due to its own stance on regional languages.
🔸 Adding new official tongues could raise EU translation costs, already over €1B/year.
#EU #Catalan #Spain #LanguagePolicy #Sanchez #France #Multilingualism
📢 Inaugural issue alert / Erste Ausgabe: Language Policy in #Africa (LPIA) is a new journal, supporting the idea that #AfricanLanguages are key to Africa's development, also in the context of #decolonisation
We are very pleased to have LPIA on Bern Open Publishing 🥳 Take a look at the the very first issue here:
https://bop.unibe.ch/LPIA/issue/view/1362
#linguistics #languagepolicy #diamondoa
Concerns about NEP 2020's 3 Language Policy
"NEP 2020 India's 3 language policy is a topic of debate. I've watched multiple news channels, but it's not being discussed enough. Is the policy necessary? I think we need a proper explanation of its necessity and better regulation of the syllabus to ensure employable skills. Share your thoughts! #NEP2020 #India #languagepolicy @Vijayvaradharaj
"மும்மொழிக் கொள்கை தேவையில்லை!" 🔥 ரஜினிகாந்த் முக்கிய அறிவுரை! 📢 #Rajinikanth #LanguagePolicy #Career
February 18, 2025 at 08:47PM
via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/DGOAiV4JKR3/
Minority language rights in the digital age
#Quebec #Canada #Politics #MinorityRights #EnglishLanguage #LanguagePolicy #DigitalAge #Bilingualism #Federalism #LanguageRights #Anglophones #FrenchLanguage #QCGN #QuebecLanguage #Bill101 #Bill96 #Bill84
https://the-14.com/minority-language-rights-in-the-digital-age/
#Slovakia 's draft #language law sparks fears over #rights of #Hungarian minority
👉 "The proposed amendment to [the] existing #languagelaw states that #Slovak text must appear first on public signs and advertisements, and that #minoritylanguages would be prohibited on public transport and in places such as post offices, according to local media reports. People who fall foul of the legislation would face fines of up to €15,000."
My two main research projects are:
1) pedagogical translanguaging and creative language learning in mainstream education in Scotland
and
2) my professional career as a public service translator and interpreter sparked my academic interests in CLB and language policy which I investigate also in the Scottish context.
As a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, I have a keen interest in educational research and SoTL.
With the Russian Language Waning in Central Asia, Will Other Languages Replace It? https://timesca.com/with-the-russian-language-waning-in-central-asia-will-other-languages-replace-it/ #Eurasia #CentralAsia #RussianLanguage #LanguageShift #LanguagePolicy #LanguageDiversity
Language policy in the Belgian Senate.
In this parliamentary committee room (for institutional reforms) there’s live interpreting for the two main national languages: Dutch and French.
But on the microphones the instructions are written down in neither language, but in English (which has no legal status as a language in Belgium).
(I love it.)
#interpreting #interpreter #language #languagepolicy #french #dutch #english #senate #belgium #parliament
These people are such giant babies. Even when given the tools they need to passively understand what people are saying in non-hegemonic languages, they refuse, and they make a big, dumb show of it.
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Members from the main opposition party, the conservative Partido Popular (PP), voted against the change and refused to use the translation headsets provided to listen to speeches not in Spanish.
And MPs representing far-right Vox dumped their headsets in a pile on the government benches as they marched out of the chamber after trying to disrupt Besteiro’s speech.
The party’s 33 MPs returned shortly afterwards to listen to a speech by a member of the PP, only to leave the chamber for a second time when the MP began to speak in Basque.
“We won’t be part of this separatist farce,” said Vox MP Pepa Millán.
More gratuitously shitty behavior from the Turkish government. Also, worth reading and thinking about in light of the current discussion about language and exclusion on this platform.
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The exclusion of Kurdish from the E-Reçetem system is not an isolated incident but part of a broader issue concerning language rights in Turkey. According to a bulletin by Minority Rights Group Europe, Kurds and other minorities in Turkey “struggle to prove their existence” and have no right to mother-tongue education in schools. Where rare opportunities do exist, parents often avoid enrolling their children in elective courses for minority languages due to societal stigma.
#turkey #kurds #kurdish #language #LinguisticDiversity #languagepolicy
https://archive.org/details/ngugi-lol
The Language of Languages: Reflections on Translation by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Topics
#translation, #literarytranslation, #linguistics, #sociolinguistics, #colonialism, #Africanlanguages, #PanAfricanism, #languagepolicy, #languagepolicies
With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.
Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, plays, and memoirs, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has been at the forefront of world literature for decades. He has also been, in his own words, “a language warrior,” fighting for indigenous African languages to find their rightful place in the literary world. Having begun his writing career in English, Ngũgĩ shifted to writing in his native language Gikũyũ in 1977, a stance both creatively and politically significant. For decades now, Ngũgĩ has been translating his Gikũyũ works into English himself, and he has used many platforms to champion the practice and cause of literary translations, which he calls “the language of languages.”
નરેન્દ્ર મોદી (Narendra Modi) and the Bharatiya Janaya Party continue their Hindutva tendencies by imposing Hindi in India: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/25/threat-unity-anger-over-push-make-hindi-national-language-of-india
#નરેન્દ્રમોદી #narendramodi #guardian #theguardian #bharatiyajanayaparty #bjp #hinudtva #fascism #nationalism #india #languagepolicy #hindi #hindustani #hannahellispetersen
Not read this article yet but it looks interesting - about covert language policy in UK https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14664208.2022.2150497#.Y5S91lirVzs.twitter #LanguagePolicy #UK
#introduction I'm a higher education researcher, with an applied linguistics background. I've been studying higher education policies with different language approaches - language policies of higher education, internationalisation of higher education, new nationalism in higher education. Recently I've started to be more interested in Academic work and academic wellbeing, trying to take a critical look at those. #HigherEducation #LanguagePolicy #NewNationalism #Internationalisation
More about me…academic interests include #IndigenousMethodologies #languagepolicy #languageplanning #nativemuseums #IndigenousArchaeology #TribalMuseums #TribalLibraries #culturalappropriation #HeritagePreservation #IndigenousArtists #NativeArtists #repatriation #sacredsites #ANCSA #SelfDetermination #tribalsovereignty …looking for more people to follow with similar interests. Quyanaa!
right. thinkin' about doing a #PhD in #LanguagePolicy / #LanguagePlanning with regards to #Welsh... need to dream up some kinda project, though... which is something i've always been kinda bad at
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