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Pointers For Linguistic Rights and Philippine Language Situation - Republic of The Philippines Davao - Studocu

Some national constitutions and treaties between World War I and II protected the language rights of minorities, such as allowing education in their own language. However, not all countries provided these rights within their own borders. After World War II, the UN took on protecting human rights, including collective rights for oppressed groups and linguistic minorities. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities further promoted language rights.

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Pointers For Linguistic Rights and Philippine Language Situation - Republic of The Philippines Davao - Studocu

Some national constitutions and treaties between World War I and II protected the language rights of minorities, such as allowing education in their own language. However, not all countries provided these rights within their own borders. After World War II, the UN took on protecting human rights, including collective rights for oppressed groups and linguistic minorities. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities further promoted language rights.

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some national constitutions protects the language rights of national minorities,

e.g. Austrian Constitutional Law of 1867 grants ethnic minorities the right to
develop their nationality and language.
3. Between World I and World War II. Under the aegis of the League of
Nations, Peace Treaties and major multilateral and international conventions
carried clauses protecting minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, e.g., the
right to private use of any language, and provision for instruction in primary
schools through medium of own language.[8] Many national constitutions

Pointers for Linguistic Rig…


followed this trend. But not all signatories provided rights to minority groups
within their own borders such as United Kingdom, France, and US. Treaties
also provided right of complaint to League of Nations and International Court
of Justice.

4. 1945–1970s. International legislation for protection of human rights was


undertaken within infrastructure of United Nations. Mainly for individual rights
and collective rights to oppressed groups for self-determination.
5. Early 1970s onwards, there was a renewed interest in rights of minorities,
including language rights of minorities. e.g. UN Declaration on the Rights of
Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities.
The importance of linguistic rights
The main goal of linguistics, like all other intellectual disciplines, is to increase our
knowledge and understanding of the world. Since language is universal and
fundamental to all human interactions, the knowledge attained in linguistics has many
practical applications.
TYPES OF LINGUISTIC RIGHTS
1. Right to speak one’s own language in legal, administrative and judicial acts.
2. Right to receive education in one’s own language.
3. Right for media to be broadcast in one’s own language.

LINGUISTIC RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL DOMAIN


1. The Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights
Approved on 6 June 1996 in Barcelona, Spain. This Declaration was drawn up in
response to calls for linguistic rights as a fundamental human right at the 12th
Seminar of the International Association for the Development of Intercultural
Communication and the Final Declaration of the General Assembly of the
International Federation of Modern Language Teachers. Linguistic rights in this
Declaration stems from the language community, i.e., collective rights, and explicitly
includes both regional and immigrant minority languages. Linguistic rights are

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