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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. thehill.com › opinion › internationalChina is replacing languages of ethnic minorities with ...

    Jul 29, 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...

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  4. 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

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    • 2021

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

    Jun 1, 2022 · In contrast, the plight of Inner Mongolians is not widely known. In 2020, the Chinese government announced a new language policy promoting immediate Mandarin-language education in schools in the region. This shows how actively China has been eradicating the identity of peripheral minority groups.

  6. 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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  7. 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.

  8. u.osu.edu › mclc › 2020/07/31China is replacing ethnic minority languages with Mandarin

    Jul 31, 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 believed that the languages of minorities could fade away gradually and, in time, Mandarin would become the only language in use.