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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 ...
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. It is believed that the languages of minorities could fade away gradually and, in time, Mandarin would become the only language in use.
- 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...
Oct 24, 2021 · The new China National Program for Child Development (2021-2030), released on September 27, omitted previous directives such as "respect and protect the rights of children of ethnic minorities to ...
Jan 28, 2021 · This is yet another serious blow to mother-tongue education – not to mention language, diversity, and cultural rights – in China. In the reform era of the 1980s, minorities were able to study ...
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.
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
