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The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law, 2019
The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights notes that only half of the Council of Europe’s member states have acceded to this legal instrument and examines why so few have done so.
G. Kardos
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Poland and the Silesians : Minority rights à la carte? [PDF]

, 2013
The Silesians are an ethnic or national group that coalesced in the nineteenth century. During the subsequent century, they survived repeated divisions of their historical region of Upper Silesia among the nation-states of Czechoslovakia (or today its ...
Kamusella, Tomasz Dominik
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The official use of minority languages in the public administration [PDF]

Strani pravni život, 2019
In this paper, the author analyses the official use of minority languages in the public administration. The use of minority languages in dealings with the administrative authorities is perhaps the most concrete sign of their legal status.
Đurić Vladimir B.
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The Council of Europe and the European Union frameworks in the legal protection of minority languages: unity or diversity?

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2011
This article focuses on the comparison between European Union Law and Council of Europe Law in the field of the protection of minority languages and looks at the relationships between the two systems.
Alessia Vacca
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On Old Uyghur Fragments of the Lotus Sutra in the Berlin Turfan Collection

Religions
This study provides a comprehensive philological analysis of ten Old Uyghur manuscript fragments of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-sūtra (Lotus Sutra) in the Berlin Turfan Collection, while systematically examining all extant Old Uyghur Lotus Sutra manuscripts ...
Ayixiemuguli Tuersun
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Articulating language oppression: colonialism, coloniality and the erasure of Tibet’s minority languages

Patterns of Prejudice, 2019
Roche’s article discusses ‘language oppression’ as a form of domination that is coherent with other forms of oppression along the lines of ‘race’, nation, colour and ethnicity.
G. Roche
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An ever closer union . . . of linguistic diversity

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
The analysis carried out between October 2014 and February 2015 by a team of researchers from the University of Westminster with support from colleagues from across the EU identified the linguistic communities across the 28 EU member states as recognized
Daniel Tomozeiu
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Introduction-Minority Language Policy: Theory and Practice [PDF]

Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 2007
In practice the Charter has created legal standards that work like individual and collective rights and that empower minority language speakers to insist upon education in minority languages, on using the languages before judicial courts and the ...
Stefan Oeter
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Virtual communities as breathing spaces for minority languages: Re-framing minority language use in social media

, 2019
Virtual communities as breathing spaces for minority languages: Re-framing minority language use in social media Considering that social media is increasingly present in our daily communicative exchanges, digital presence is an essential component of ...
Guillem Belmar, Maggie Glass
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Linguistic Landscapes and Minority Languages

The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities, 2018
Studies on the Linguistic Landscapes (LLs) investigate frequencies, functions, and power relations between languages and their speakers in public space. Research on the LL thereby aims to understand how the production and perception of signs reflect and ...
D. Gorter, H. F. Marten, L. Van Mensel
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