Language Rights in China

Author(s)	Somya Nayak
Country	India
Abstract	China is multi-ethnic state. So far the government has identified and confirmed 55 ethnic minorities. All the ethnic groups live together, each of them having their own language and culture. There are about 120 mother tongues in minority regions (Sun, 2004), among which only 30 minority languages have written scripts and 20 languages have less than 1,000 speakers (Zuo, 2007). Besides, the constant promotion of Mandarin language since 1956, China has also designed and adopted number of policy measures to protect the minorities languages. This paper will make an attempt to examine the minority language policy adopted by PRC on paper and its actual implementation. The paper will also discuss the gap that lies between the two.
Keywords	language policy , minorities , multi-ethnicity
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 2, March-April 2023
Published On	2023-04-21
Cite This	Language Rights in China - Somya Nayak - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 2, March-April 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i02.2199
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i02.2199
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gr6h9z

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