Lengua de mayoría regional, planificación del lenguaje y derechos lingüísticos

• Autores: Jacques Maurais
• Localización: Alteridades, ISSN-e 2448-850X, ISSN 0188-7017, Vol. 5, Nº. 10, 1995 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Derechos humanos lingüísticos en sociedades multiculturales), págs. 89-104
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Regional majority languages, language planning, and linguistic rights
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• Resumen

  • This paper analyses the legal protection of languages from the point of view of “regional majority languages”,i.e. languages of populations which, though a majority in their historic territory (where they may nevertheless be experiencing some form of assimilation), are minorities at the national level (French in Quebec, Catalan in Catalonia, and many languages in the pre-1991Soviet Union). Only the protection of aboriginal linguistic minorities seems to have been considered so far at the international level. The paper proposes some sociolinguistic principles related to the legal protection of languages which can be gathered from the Canadian experience: the present situation of aboriginal languages and the Quebec’s experience of language planning. Some recent foreign experiences of