TY  - BOOK
AU  - Seidle,F.Leslie
TI  - Language Policy in Federal and Devolved Countries: recognition, inclusion and current issues
T2  - Occasional paper
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)
PB  -  : Forum of Federations
KW  - Política lingüística
KW  - Federalismo
KW  - Descentralización
N1  - Bibliografía: p. 22-28
N2  - Language is a highly significant marker of individual and collective identities. It often provides an impulse for national or community affirmation and claims to self-government. Provisions to recognize and accommodate linguistic differences can be particularly salient in federations, many of which have highly diverse populations. Indeed, in quite a few cases linguistic diversity was one of the key reasons why federalism was central to a country’s founding framework or the result of its constitutional evolution.

Several federal countries have designated more than one language as official (or national) languages in the federal constitution and/or legislation. In turn, the constituent units (states, provinces, etc.) may accord a similar status to one or more languages. The different designations are not merely symbolic: they usually require or lead to policies, programs and other measures to govern language use. In some nonfederal states where more than one language is spoken, a measure of authority over language policy has sometimes been devolved to regional governments (or the equivalent)
UR  - https://mpr.bage.es/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=a883f3f954313c20cfa4c754af465b7e
ER  -