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Zhao, Shouhui; Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
As Chinese characters ("hanzi") have three aspects--as a technical writing system, an aesthetic visual art (Chinese calligraphy), and a highly-charged cultural symbolic system--changing them is a complex process. In the 1950s when language planning campaigns were launched to modernise Chinese through "hanzi" standardisation,…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Language Planning, Handwriting, Written Language
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Bloor, Thomas; Tamrat, Wondwosen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996
Addresses the issue of language planning in pluralist Ethiopia. Offers an evaluative appraisal of the new policy that considers a number of obstacles to implementation of the policy and questions the move towards the preference of the roman alphabet to the Ethiopic syllabic writing system. (33 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Amharic, Arabic, Cultural Pluralism, English (Second Language)