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Nations, language, and citizenship
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Nations, language, and citizenship

Author: Norman Berdichevsky
Publisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, ©2004.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Norman Berdichevsky
ISBN: 0786417102 9780786417100
OCLC Number: 53485173
Description: vi, 282 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. Countries with competing candidates for the national language ; 1. Hebrew versus Yiddish ; 2. The attempt to revive Irish ; 3. Norways schizophrenia ; 4. Maltese -- pt. 2. Multiethnic countries with bilingualism and multilingualism ; 5. Belgium ; 6. Switzerland ; 7. Spain ; 8. Canada ; 9. India ; 10. South Africa -- pt. 3. The Celtic pygmy revivals of Welsh and Scots ; 11. Wales, Welsh and plaid Cymru ; 12. Scotland, Scots and the threatened demise of Scottish Gaelic -- pt. 4. Dialects or Languages? ; 13. Italian dialects ; 14. Scandinavian languages -- pt. 5. The quarreling cousins ; 15. Serbian and Croatian (Serbo-Croatian), or, A common language does not a nation make ; 16. Czech and Slovak ; 17. Romanian and Moldavian -- pt. 6. Ethnic or regional minorities: bilingual or using the wrong language? ; 18. The Romanian-speaking Hungarians ;19. Alsace-Lorraine ; 20. The German-speaking Danish minority in South Schleswig ; 21. The Swedish-speaking Finlanders ; 22. Israels Hebrew-speaking Arab citizens -- pt. 7. Spanish versus Portuguese in Uruguay: the case of determined government planning to avoid bilingualism ; 23. Uruguay -- pt. 8. The struggle with the chains of the past (Greek, Arabic, and Turkish) ; 24. The Greek dilemma ; 25. Arabic ; 26. Turkish identity frees itself from the Islamic/Arabic yoke.
Responsibility: Norman Berdichevsky.
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