Language territorial regimes in ethnic federations
Keywords:
language preferential policy, language territorial regime, ethnic territorial autonomy, ethnic federationAbstract
The struggle for a mother tongue as a medium is caused by the problem of survival of an ethnic group that perceives its language situation as discriminated. It politicizes language and refers us to the research problem of the balance between ethnic minority claims to the autonomy and territorial integrity of a state. In the case of an ethnic federation, the solution of this problem is to redesign the territorial and administrative structure by the separation of a new sub-federal state, transformation of internal boundaries or changing the capacity and scope of preferences for selected regions that get the status of an ethnic territorial autonomy. More often than not, the set of these measures includes language preferential policy. The institutionalized preferential language policy sets language territorial regimes various in their strength. The idea of classifying them into three types is verified by the example of eight ethnic territorial autonomies in five ethnic federations (Wallonia and Flanders in Belgium, Quebec in Canada, the Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in India, and Jura in SwitzerlandDOI: 10.17072/2218-1067-2016-4-94-115References
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