Language and the nationality question

Type Working Paper - Economic and Political Weekly
Title Language and the nationality question
Author(s)
Volume 32
Issue 6
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 1997
Page numbers 268-272
URL http://el.doccentre.info/eldoc/n00_/08feb97EPW.pdf
Abstract
Categorisation of some languages as 'standard' and others as backward, crude, inferior or corrupt forms of standard languages is more a political construct than a linguistic fact. Dialects which do not have script and lack state patronage to develop literature in print get impoverished. Education is one such vital area where this language hierarchy is strengthened in name of preserving national integration.

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