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Language Rights

Language Rights is a human rights category encompassing the entitlements of individuals and communities to use, preserve, develop, and transmit their languages, particularly in educational, judicial, administrative, and cultural contexts, with special significance for speakers of minority, indigenous, and endangered languages.

582

Publications

35.1K

Citations

651

Authors

348

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

90

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Children

Publications

582

Orientations in Language Planning

Richard Ruíz · NABE Journal · 1984 · 1.9K citations

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Linguistic Genocide in Education: Or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?

David Johnson, Tove Skutnabb‐Kangas · TESOL Quarterly · 2001 · 1.3K citations

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Language and minority rights: ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of language

Choice Reviews Online · 2008 · 793 citations

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Language Problems of Developing Nations.

Irwin Deutscher, Joshua A. Fishman, Charles A. Ferguson et al. · American Sociological Review · 1969 · 716 citations

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<b>Planning language, planning inequality</b> : Language policy in the community. By James W. Tollefson (Language in social life series.) London &amp; New York: Longman, 1991. Pp. ix, 234.

Robert Bayley · Language · 1992 · 618 citations

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Authors

651

  1. TS
    Tove Skutnabb‐Kangas

    Roskilde University, Denmark

    14 publications · 2.4K citations

    13

    h-index

  2. SM
    Stephen May

    University of Auckland, New Zealand

    9 publications · 954 citations

    9

    h-index

  3. RP
    Robert Phillipson

    Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

    9 publications · 743 citations

    9

    h-index

  4. HD
    Helder De Schutter

    KU Leuven, Belgium

    5 publications · 131 citations

    5

    h-index

  5. GS
    Geneva Smitherman

    Michigan State University, United States

    5 publications · 276 citations

    5

    h-index

1–5 of 651

Institutions

348

  1. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    314 citations

  2. University of Auckland

    Auckland, New Zealand

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    332 citations

  3. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    523 citations

  4. University of Ottawa

    Ottawa, Canada

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    150 citations

  5. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    269 citations

  6. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    250 citations

  7. Roskilde University

    Roskilde, Denmark

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    1.1K citations

  8. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    236 citations

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Venues

  1. International Journal of the Sociology of Language

    IJSL · 22 publications · 838 citations

    19

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  2. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

    JMMD · 20 publications · 1K citations

    17

    h-index

  3. Current Issues in Language Planning

    21 publications · 918 citations

    14

    h-index

  4. Language

    12 publications · 1.9K citations

    12

    h-index

  5. Language Problems & Language Planning

    13 publications · 412 citations

    12

    h-index

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