#languagepolicy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #languagepolicy, aggregated by home.social.
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The central government led by Anwar has increased the pressure to accept Bahasa Melayu. Is this fair? Is this producing sincere Bahasa Melayu speakers?
#Malaysia #Politics #BahasaMelayu #LanguagePolicy #AnwarIbrahim #Government #Fairness #Culture #LinguisticRights #Education
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Kerajaan pusat yang dipimpin oleh Anwar telah meningkat lagi paksaan untuk menerima Bahasa Melayu. Adakah ini adil? Adakah ini melahirkan penutur Bahasa Melayu yang ikhlas?
#Malaysia #Politics #BahasaMelayu #LanguagePolicy #AnwarIbrahim #Government #Fairness #Culture #LinguisticRights #Education
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@SimonRoyHughes There are languages that are losing speakers, and are on track to no longer be spoken, like Sámi and Kven.
#Icelandic is not one of those languages, and it wasn't under Danish rule. 93% of the population of Iceland are native, daily speakers.
Jakobsdóttir's anecdote that "kids in Iceland are even conversing in English sometimes between themselves" is not a serious challenge to this established pattern.
https://grieve-smith.com/blog/2018/01/remembering-alan-hudson/
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#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."
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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
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https://archive.org/details/ngugi-lol
The Language of Languages: Reflections on Translation by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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#translation, #literarytranslation, #linguistics, #sociolinguistics, #colonialism, #Africanlanguages, #PanAfricanism, #languagepolicy, #languagepoliciesWith 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.”
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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!
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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!