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Kim, Ujin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Xinjiang has witnessed constant state attempts to reinforce the status of Mandarin Chinese as 'the Common Language' and to make local Turkic languages -- mainly Uyghur and Kazak -- more 'suitable' to the modern world. Official efforts to transform the linguistic landscape of Xinjiang have engaged in a complex interplay with Turkic speakers' own…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Mandarin Chinese, Official Languages, Turkic Languages