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Oct 24, 2021 · TAIPEI — After experiments aimed at assimilating ethnic minorities in Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, the Chinese government now is moving to apply its cultural assimilation policy for...
- The Language Preservation Project
- Surveying Language
- Preventing Language Loss
In 2015, China’s State Language Commission and the Ministry of Education launched the Language Preservation Project (often referred to as yu-bao). The first phase of the project spanned five years. Between 2015 and 2019, several hundred languages and dialects were surveyed across the country, with a total of 1,712 survey points, including more than...
The surveys focus on language structure and discourse. Language structure relates to the sound systemand grammar of a language. Some 2,000 lexical (that is, relating to words or the vocabulary of a language) features are used to examine the sound system and the lexicon, including a 1,200-word basic vocabulary to ensure a good description of the sou...
Research on the preservation of language resources has achieved remarkable results over the past 20 years, but language endangerment and loss has not stopped. As the government and society develop a deeper understanding of the need to protect endangered languages and other language resources, work on language preservation will enter a new phase. Ch...
Jan 28, 2021 · But since President Xi Jinping’s rise to power in the 2010s, and his vision to build a Han-centric “China Dream,” his government has marginalized these languages in schools.
Apr 5, 2022 · China’s approach to all ethnic minorities has shifted to “Sinicization,” making them adhere to Communist Party values and reject all foreign influence, even forcing them to change their religious teachings as well as manners and customs.
Jan 2, 2021 · The PRC constitution proclaims that all nationalities are equal and have the freedom to use and develop their own spoken and written languages, but the 1995 Educational Law weakened this by stating that ethnic minorities “may” use their languages.
- Bernard Spolsky
- bspolsky@gmail.com
- 2021
Jul 31, 2020 · It should not be left alone. Across China, Beijing apparently intends to replace the languages of all ethnic minorities with Mandarin, to bring in uniformity of language and enhance people’s identity as Chinese.
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Sep 29, 2021 · Ethnic Minority Languages in China: Policy and Practice is the fifth and latest volume of the series Language Policies and Practices in China, edited by Li Wei, which are all translated works of Ch...
- Shanhua He
- 2021
