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Oct 24, 2021 · According to Yang, the local regulations were revised to eliminate the right of minorities to use their own language in schools in favor of Mandarin Chinese, the nation's official language. "The ...
Apr 5, 2022 · Why do Beijing and the rest of the world have completely different views concerning China’s ethnic minorities and human rights issues? The issue represents an important point in considering how China will face the world in the future and how we should handle the relationship between diversity and conformity in human society as a whole.
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- 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 · Xi’s regressive language policy reflects the deepening repression in minority areas. It also contravenes China’s obligations under international human rights treaties, such as the Convention ...
Sep 29, 2021 · Ethnic minority languages in China: policy and practice (in Language policies and practices in China, Vol. 5, edited by Li Wei) by Qingsheng Zhou, Boston/Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton and Social Sciences Academic Press (China), 2020, xxvii+441 pp., 129.95 € (hardback), ISBN 9781501515026
- Shanhua He
- 2021
Jul 29, 2020 · 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. It is ...
Jan 2, 2021 · The PRC currently recognizes fifty-six ethnic groups, accounting for just over 8% of the population occupying 65% of Chinese territory, mainly in border areas. The largest group is Zhuang, with over 16 million people; the smallest is Lloba with just under 3,000. Uyghur is 8,400,000; Mongol is 5,800,000 and Tibetan is 5,400,000.
