What is it about?
Linguistic human rights refer to the fundamental rights protecting language-related acts and values that are entrenched in the constitution of a country or in an international treaty. Linguistic human rights encompass a series of core rights (e.g. the right to speak one’s language) and ancillary rights (e.g. the right to a translation or an interpretation from other languages and the right to learn the language).
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Why is it important?
This handbook sheds light on the lesser-investigated linguistic human rights of the Indigenous/Tribal people(s), Minorities and minoritised people(s), in particular their language rights to exercise their language rights. The minority languages covered by the book include but are not limited to the Mixe language, Celtic language, Australian First Nations languages, and Inuit languages.
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This page is a summary of: The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights, edited by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, July 2023, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15718115-bja10119.
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