Nations, language, and citizenship / Norman Berdichevsky.
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Jefferson, N.C. :
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Countries with Competing Candidates for the National Language
- 1. Hebrew versus Yiddish: The Case of Israel
- 2. The Attempt to Revive Irish: A Nation Once Again
- 3. Norway's Schizophrenia: New Norse (Nynorsk) versus Dano-Norwegian (Bokmal/Riksmal)
- 4. Maltese: "The Curse of the Country and Fit Only for the Kitchen"
- Pt. II. Multiethnic Countries with Bilingualism and Multilingualism
- 5. Belgium: The Classic "Buffer State"
- 6. Switzerland
- 7. Spain: Five Official Languages, or Is It Only Four and Two-Thirds?
- 8. Canada
- 9. India
- 10. South Africa
- Pt. III. The Celtic "Pygmy" Revivals of Welsh and Scots
- 11. Wales, Welsh and Plaid Cymru
- 12. Scotland, Scots and the Threatened Demise of Scottish Gaelic
- Pt. IV. Dialects or Languages?
- 13. Italian Dialects
- 14. Scandinavian Languages: Unification Tried and Rejected
- Pt. V. The Quarreling Cousins
- 15. Serbian and Croatian (Serbo-Croatian) or "A Common Language Does Not a Nation Make"
- 16. Czech and Slovak
- 17. Romanian and Moldavian
- Pt. VI. Ethnic or Regional Minorities: Bilingual or Using the "Wrong Language"?
- 18. The Romanian-Speaking Hungarians
- 19. Alsace-Lorraine: German Speakers Who Identify with France
- 20. The German-Speaking Danish Minority in South Schleswig
- 21. The Swedish-Speaking Finlanders
- 22. Israel's Hebrew-Speaking Arab Citizens
- Pt. VII. Spanish versus Portuguese in Uruguay: The Case of Determined Government Planning to Avoid Bilingualism
- 23. Uruguay: The Origins of the Buffer State
- Pt. VIII. The Struggle with the Chains of the Past (Greek, Arabic and Turkish)
- 24. The Greek Dilemma: Ancient (Attic) versus Demotike versus Katharevousa
- 25. Arabic: The Koran versus Modern Standard versus the Local Vernaculars
- 26. Turkish Identity Frees Itself from the Islamic/Arabic Yoke.
