Latest posts tagged with #LanguagePolitics on Bluesky
My latest for @timesca.com as Central Asia rethinks Moscow’s influence Russian declines symbolically but still dominates the region’s cultural bureaucracy and art world infrastructure timesca.com/the-language... #CentralAsia #LanguagePolitics #Culture #PostSoviet #Identity
"தீ பரவட்டும்" மொழிப்போரில் மறைக்கப்படும் முஸ்லிம்களின் வரலாறு
முழு பதிவை அறிந்து கொள்ள கீழே உள்ள லிங்க்கை கிளிக் செய்யவும்.
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#HiddenHistory #MuslimHistory #ErasedNarratives #LanguagePolitics #CulturalErasure #MinorityVoices #HistoricalInjustice #TruthMatters #SocialJustice
#IndiaPolitics #Nadunilai_Samuthayam
Spain-Spanish is not Latin American Spanish, and calling it “slang” is regurgetating harmful colonial thinking. I break down why Spanish has multiple standards and why this matters for writers, readers, and culture.
#LanguagePolitics #LatineWriters #DecolonizeLanguage #Spanglish #HaveACupOfJohanny
Quebec's over reach: It's bad enough 90%+ of the ads while listening to my EN podcasts on Spotify are now French and I don't bloody well live in #Quebec. The change from EN to FR came suddenly over the last several months. When is enough enough? #languagepolitics
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Same in Canada over French. Many anglophones in Quebec thought it déclassé to speak it. I was in the first big French-immersion program, partly because my Donegal-born Ulster-Scot father was horrified he hadn’t learned Irish or Irish history.
#LanguagePolitics #Irish #Quebec #Bilingualism
In my latest Port of Entry essay, I write about the politics of language, assimilation, and passing (or not passing) our mother tongues to our children.
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#PortOfEntry #BadBunny #LanguagePolitics
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🔥 Tamil Nadu takes a bold stand on language policy!
The state gears up to oppose the imposition of Hindi, reaffirming pride in Tamil identity and linguistic diversity. 🗣️
What’s your take — unity through one language or strength in linguistic diversity? 💬👇
#TamilNadu #LanguagePolitics
What #France ’s vanishing dialects reveal about #languagepolitics in #India, and how pride and shame shape #Bihar ’s tongues amid the dominance of Hindi and English.
Hugo Ribadeau Dumas writes:
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5/10 The novel's real focus is language itself. A key debate centres on katakana—Japanese script for foreign-derived words. These sound "milder, more euphemistic" than traditional kanji, potentially masking discriminatory meanings.
#Katakana #LanguagePolitics
The Lashkari myth oversimplifies Urdu’s rich, indigenous history and undermines South Asia’s syncretic culture.
By Muhammad Raiyd Qazi
Read more: thefridaytimes.com/13-Aug-2025/...
#Urdu #Languages #Hindi #Hindustani #SouthAsia #linguistics #languagepolitics #politics #history #culture
Urdu and Hindi are two registers of the same language, yet politics has long sought to divide them.
By Muhammad Raiyd Qazi
Read more: thefridaytimes.com/13-Aug-2025/...
#Urdu #Languages #Hindi #Hindustani #SouthAsia #linguistics #languagepolitics #politics #history #culture
“Learn English first.”
You’ve heard it.
But what if language isn’t a bridge — it’s a barrier?
Cultural purity narratives are shaping immigration policy more than you think.
#Brewminate #LanguagePolitics #Immigration #Gatekeeping
#Maharashtra minister Nitish Rane claimed that the Opposition should ask Muslims to teach #Marathi in madrasas and recite the azaan in the language instead of Urdu, adding that “otherwise, all you get from there is a gun”.
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#LanguagePolitics
Mother tongue is more important during this age, the Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar said.
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Learning Hindi would be in the students’ interest after Class 5 as 55% of the people in India speak the language, he added.
#languagepolitics
In the Hindi literary world, writers, particularly women, Dalits, and those who dissent, are pressured either to assimilate into the existing hierarchical framework or risk erasure altogether.
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✍️Charu Singh
#Hindi #LanguagePolitics
A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and K Vinod Chandran said that Urdu was born in India, and that it is, like Marathi and Hindi, an Indo-Aryan language.
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#urdu #languagepolitics
“All officials must use Marathi language while interacting with visitors, except for visitors from outside India and non-Marathi speaking states,” said a notification by the Maharashtra government.
Read more: scroll.in/latest/1078712
#Marathi #Maharashtra #LanguagePolitics
