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  1. www.voanews.com › a › china-steps-up-assimilation-ofChina Steps Up Assimilation of Ethnic Minorities by Banning ...

    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...

  2. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullEthnic minority languages in China: policy and practice (in ...

    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

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  4. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au › articles › preserving-chinaPreserving China’s minority languages | Pursuit by The ...

    • 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...

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    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...

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    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...

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  5. link.springer.com › article › 10Qinsheng Zhou: Ethnic Minority Languages in China: Policy and ...

    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. Implementation is even weaker.

    • Bernard Spolsky
    • bspolsky@gmail.com
    • 2021

  6. www.hrw.org › news › 2021/01/28China Signals Roll-Back on Minority Languages | Human Rights ...

    Jan 28, 2021 · Concerned governments and United Nations bodies, notably the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), should not only call on Chinese authorities to reverse...

  7. link.springer.com › content › pdfQinsheng Zhou: Ethnic Minority Languages in China ... - Springer

    Zhou notes the “tortuous development” of this policy alongside a policy of “diversity” that includes the “conservation and development of ethnic minority languages”. 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.

  8. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullLinguistic Assimilation in China: Past, Present, and Future

    Jun 1, 2022 · This article begins with a brief historical overview of China's linguistic assimilation policy toward ethnic minorities, followed by an investigation based on existing research and media information on the current position in Inner Mongolia and in particular of Mongolians living in Japan. KEYWORDS: linguistic assimilation. language policy.