Right to Identity: Language Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Language Policy of Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

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10.2991/aebmr.k.200114.087How to use a DOI?

Keywords

language rights, indigenous languages, language policy, language revitalization, public organizations, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Abstract

The language rights are considered as fundamental rights, naturally arising from peoples’ right to self-determination. The article is dedicated to the issues of language rights of Indigenous minorities and provides an overview of law initiatives in the Russian Federation and Sakha Republic (Yakutia) that seek to improve the existing language policy put forth by the state government. For an effective language policy aimed at preserving and developing the languages of the indigenous minorities of the North, it is first necessary to identify the areas whose regulation will allow them to successfully implement their language rights. The article presents an analysis the existing laws on the languages of sixteen national republics of the Russian Federation from the point of view of the legal status of the languages and the language rights and the results of sociological study regarding people’s beliefs about responsibility for native language maintenance and revitalization.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - A.E. Mestnikova
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/01/18
TI  - Right to Identity: Language Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Language Policy of Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
BT  - Proceedings of the First International Volga Region Conference on Economics, Humanities and Sports (FICEHS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 366
EP  - 370
SN  - 2352-5428
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