Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and the Revival of Hebrew
The life and work of the founder of the Hebrew Language Council, the forerunner of today's Hebrew Language Academy, the supreme arbiter and authority on all matters pertaining to the Hebrew language.
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/ben_yehuda.htmlEurolang
An independent Brussels-based news agency providing daily news coverage of events that matter to Europe's minority language communities.
http://www.eurolang.net/
Forgetting Latgalian
Article concerning the politics of distinguishing between a language and a dialect.
http://www.balticsww.com/latgalian.htm
How the Norwegian Parliament Banned the National Language
A political history of the Norwegian language by Ingar Holst.
http://www.holst.no/Ingar.Holst.Publishing.Co/irregular-papers/irr1a.html
Israel: Language Policy
Profile of the role of Hebrew in Israeli government and education.
http://www.biu.ac.il/hu/lprc/lprcprof.htm
Language Problems and Language Planning
International multi-lingual journal that publishes articles primarily on political, sociological, and economic aspects of language and language use. Site includes submission and subscription information, contents and abstracts.
http://www.benjamins.com/jbp/journals/Lplp_info.html
Nationalism and Language
An essay by Bozidar Jaksic on linguistic identity and policy in the Balkans.
http://users.volja.net/romag/pub/Nationalism-and-Language.html
Politics and the English Language
An essay by George Orwell.
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.html
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