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8 - The Role of Writing Systems

from Part II - Language in the World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2018

William D. Davies  and
Stanley Dubinsky
William D. Davies
Affiliation:
University of Iowa
Stanley Dubinsky
Affiliation:
University of South Carolina
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Summary

This chapter presents cases in which language conflict and language rights issues have arisen in the aftermath of the creation of a geopolitical minority as a consequence of changed national boundaries. Some of these changes are the outcome of war, some result from political unification, and others stem from political dissolution. Each case, though, involves a linguistic group finding itself a minority in a country dominated by another linguistic group, without having moved anywhere. The cases featured in this chapter are Hungarians in Slovakia, Hispanics in Southwest US, and Kurds in Turkey. Three extra cases presented at the end of the chapter for the reader to explore are the Tetum in Timor Leste, the Amazigh (Berbers) in the Maghreb region of Africa, and the Tibetans in China.
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Language Conflict and Language Rights
Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on Human Conflict
 , pp. 132 - 160
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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