<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This contribution will engage with Van Parijs’s approach to linguistic justice and his working principles for the reduction of unfairness in the language domain (in particular, the need for intervention and his territorial principle), reflecting on a range of cases of multilingual practice and linguistic coexistence – respectively, in the multilingual capital of the world which is London today; in Fryslân, the minority language area in northern Netherlands; and in Europe, through its European Charter of Regional Minority Languages.</p><p>Overall, my argument, on a theoretical level, is for the further exploration of the relationship between linguistic diversity and human rights in civil society; and, on a practical level, for the development of a World Language Atlas as envisaged by UNESCO, containing vital information on all the world’s languages – an urgently needed basic resource for policy-making, to ensure, especially for the world’s many endangered languages, the linguistic justice and fairness advocated by Van Parijs.</p></abstract>

This contribution will engage with Van Parijs’s approach to linguistic justice and his working principles for the reduction of unfairness in the language domain (in particular, the need for intervention and his territorial principle), reflecting on a range of cases of multilingual practice and linguistic coexistence – respectively, in the multilingual capital of the world which is London today; in Fryslân, the minority language area in northern Netherlands; and in Europe, through its European Charter of Regional Minority Languages.Overall, my argument, on a theoretical level, is for the further exploration of the relationship between linguistic diversity and human rights in civil society; and, on a practical level, for the development of a World Language Atlas as envisaged by UNESCO, containing vital information on all the world’s languages – an urgently needed basic resource for policy-making, to ensure, especially for the world’s many endangered languages, the linguistic justice and fairness advocated by Van Parijs.

Linguistic Justice and Endangered Languages

Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, University College London

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies

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This contribution will engage with Van Parijs’s approach to linguistic justice and his working principles for the reduction of unfairness in the language...

Linguistic Justice and Endangered Languages

Published Online: Oct 26, 2016

Page range: 39 - 47

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/auseur-2016-0006

Keywords
European Charter of Regional Minority Languages, Frisian, linguistic coexistence, London multilingualism, territorial principle

© 2016 Reinier Salverda, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Linguistic Justice and Endangered Languages

Published Online: Oct 26, 2016

Page range: 39 - 47

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/auseur-2016-0006

KeywordsEuropean Charter of Regional Minority Languages, Frisian, linguistic coexistence, London multilingualism, territorial principle

© 2016 Reinier Salverda, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
European Charter of Regional Minority Languages, Frisian, linguistic coexistence, London multilingualism, territorial principle