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International Year of Languages (and potatoes)

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | January 17, 2008 - 08:48

The General Assembly of the United Nations has declared 2008 to be the International Year of Languages (it’s also declared 2008 the International Year of the Potato!!).

Linguist rights have long been included in the many basic human rights; especially protected are the linguistic rights of minorities. EISIL (Electronic Information System for International Law) has collected a handy page of primary documents, web sites and research resources on linguistic rights, which includes links to the 1996 Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights and the 1992 European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

The United States has likewise confronted the issue of linguistic rights, as exemplified by the 1923 U.S. Supreme Court case of Meyer v. Nebraska 262 U.S. 390. The plaintiff had been convicted under a Nebraska statute of unlawfully teaching the subject of reading in the German language to a ten year old student. The Court overturned the law, declaring it unconstitutional under the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment [Library of Congress web guide].


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