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Hui Wang; Anikó Hatoss – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The study of language maintenance and shift (LMS) has attracted a large body of empirical work in language policy and planning (LPP) contexts, including allochthonous (immigrant) and autochthonous (indigenous) languages. However, some critical ontological questions that relate to the scope and terminology of language maintenance studies remain…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Language Skill Attrition
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Winsa, Birger – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2000
Highlights the recognition of Meankieli, a former Finnish dialect, in the Torne Valley region of Sweden. The recognition of Meankieli as a language rather than a dialect in Swedish minority language legislation is an important language-planning decision with the potential to affect the whole linguistic ecology of the Torne Valley. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Dialects, Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Language Planning
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Medgyes, Peter; Miklosy, Katalin – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2000
Focuses on the language situation in Hungary, a largely monolingual country, where nearly 89% of the populations speaks Hungarian as their first language. The primary focus is on the Hungarian language as used by some 10 million people within the national borders of Hungary; less attention is paid to Hungarian as a minority language or the…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Hungarian
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King, Kendall A.; Haboud, Marleen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2002
This monograph presents up-to-date information concerning language planning and policy in Ecuador, highlighting the country's cultural and linguistic diversity, historical context, current sociolinguistic situation and possible directions for the future. Taking into account Ecuador's particular sociopolitical conditions, it aims to provide a…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Public Officials, Official Languages, Foreign Countries