Using Unicode in Encoding the Vietnamese Ethnic Minority Languages, Applying for the Ede Language

2014 ◽  
pp. 137-148
Author(s):  
Le Hoang Thi My ◽  
Khanh Phan Huy ◽  
Souksan Vilavong
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Languages

scholarly journals THE ISSUES OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE AND WRITING SYSTEM OF ETHNIC MINORITIES IN VIETNAM IN ANTHROPOLOGY TRAINING AND RESEARCH (The case of ancient written materials of the Cham)

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Thanh Phan
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Writing System ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Training And Research ◽  
Written Materials

The Cham in Vietnam have possessed a writing system for ages. Basing on Sanskrit and Arabian characters, they created many different characters to record issues related to their history, culture, religion, custom, and so on. As a result, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, foreign researchers doing research on their history and civilization paid close attention to reading and exploring the Cham’s ancient written materials. However, in Vietnam, seldom is there any scholar, particularly in anthropology and ethnology, being interested in this issue. This is in fact a barrier to Vietnamese anthropologists and ethnologists who attempt to scientifically and intensively study on the Cham culture. This paper presents the current situation of exploring the Cham’s ancient written materials in Vietnam in order to propose some solutions for the training of the Cham language in particular, and of ethnic minority languages in general for the sake of anthropology training and research in Vietnam.

Russia erodes minority rights through education cuts

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Minority Regions

Subject School provision for minority languages in Russia. Significance A reduction in access to language education in ethnic minority regions has sparked controversy, most of all in Tatarstan where it is part of a broader push to reduce local autonomy. Moscow is quietly curtailing the cultural identities of its many ethnic minorities in order to create a more homogenous and above all Russian-speaking nationhood. Impacts The emphasis on ethnic 'Russianness' in nation-building will increase. Crimea will embody the politicisation of language as local Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars find their languages out of favour. Moscow will ignore the inconsistency between its policy and its complaints about Russian rights in Latvia and Ukraine.

Jianchuan Bai

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Jerold A. Edmondson ◽  
John H. Esling ◽  
Li Shaoni
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Remote Area ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Populated Area ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
Salt Mining

The Bai language () is spoken by approximately 1.6 million people in northwest Yunnan Province, China. Of the 25 minority languages spoken in Yunnan, where 33% of the population are ethnic minorities and 67% are Han Chinese, the Bai ethnic minority is second in population only to the Yi (Wiersma 1990, 2003; 2010 census). Bai is classified as a Tibeto-Burman language (Xu & Zhao 1964, 1984), although arguments have been raised as to its possible early Sinitic origins (Starostin 1994, 1995). A summary in French reviews Chinese loanwords, ancient Bai, and comparative Bai dialects (Dell 1981). The historical influence of Chinese on Bai has been significant, but evidence is not compelling that Bai is Sinitic (Norman 2003: 73). There are three major dialects of Bái: Jiànchuān (), Dàlĭ (), and Bìjiāng (). The data in this illustration represent the variety of Jianchuan (jian1239, BCA). The third author (), who was about 60 years old at the time of recording, is a male native of the Jianchuan region, originating from QiÁohǒu, a mountain village some 50 km southwest of Jianchuan city – a remote area known for salt mining and where the language has been less influenced by modern Chinese. These locations are indicated on the map of Yunnan (the southwesternmost province of China in an intensely minority-language-populated area) in Figure 1. The traditional geographical link from Qiaohou is to Jianchuan to the north rather than to Dali to the south, and many of the most distinctive characteristics of Jianchuan Bai described here are not found in Dali Bai.

Circulation: Mother tongue education for speakers of ethnic minority languages

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Gregerson ◽  
Evelyn Plaice ◽  
Nana Clemensen ◽  
Rainer Hamel ◽  
Godfrey Kipsisey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Mother Tongue Education
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