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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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- Language and languages -- Political aspects.
- Language policy.
- Nationalism.
- Linguistic minorities.
- Bilingualism -- Political aspects.
- Linguistic geography -- Political aspects.
- Langage et langues -- Aspect politique.
- Politique linguistique.
- Minorités linguistiques.
- Bilinguisme -- Aspect politique.
- Multilinguisme -- Aspect politique.
- Taalpolitiek.
- Identiteit.
