The Language Nobody Wants to Speak About: Russian’s Uneasy Place in Central Asia’s Cultural Conversation - The Times Of Central Asia Rhetoric in segments of the Russian media has sharpened debates over sovereignty and influence across Central Asia, pushing these concerns beyond policy

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

ட்ரம்பை ஆட்டம் காணவைக்கும் காமேனி நடுநிலைச் சமுதாயம் உரிமை : 8 குரல் : 3 ட்ரம்பை ஆட்டம் காணவைக்கும் காமேனி

"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

When “Spain-Spanish” Is Treated as the Default: How a Bad Linguistic Take Reveals Colonial Thinking I knew the TikTok comment was wrong the moment I read it, but not because it offended me. I have a pretty high tolerance for internet nonsense. I knew it was wrong because it collapsed under the same basic logic I navigate every time I work with editors on my books. The commenter’s argument was this: Spain-Spanish is Latin American Spanish.

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

Apple and Spotify warn Quebec against French music streaming quotas "The best way forward is to focus on listeners’ freedom rather than imposing limits," says the head of the music-streaming industry’s trade association.

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

​​ESSAY: Bad Bunny’s Upcoming Super Bowl Performance Reminds America That Language Is Power Language is inheritance — and sometimes, rebellion.

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

How Annie Ernaux’s story parallels the struggles of local languages in Bihar IT MIGHT SEEM cheeky to bring up France when talking about India’s language politics. After all, France went maniacally monolingual after its Revolution. The on

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

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#Urdu #Languages #Hindi #Hindustani #SouthAsia #linguistics #languagepolitics #politics #history #culture

The Politics Of Language In South Asia: Debunking The Urdu-Hindi Divide The Urdu-Hindi divide is a political myth; both are registers of Hindustani, shaped by history, culture, and colonial-nationalist agendas, not conquest

Urdu and Hindi are two registers of the same language, yet politics has long sought to divide them.
By Muhammad Raiyd Qazi

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#Urdu #Languages #Hindi #Hindustani #SouthAsia #linguistics #languagepolitics #politics #history #culture

Language Policy and National Identity in Immigration How language bans and English-only laws reflect deeper nationalist views on immigration and cultural purity.

“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

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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.

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#Marathi #Maharashtra #LanguagePolitics