<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Globalization in the early 21st century can be considered as the age of inequality that splits the world into the rich North and the poor South. From the perspective of language politics, only very few discussed the division across the globe, especially, between Eurasia and the “Rest of the world.” In Eurasia, indigenous languages and scripts are used in official capacity, while the same function is fulfilled almost exclusively by <italic>non</italic>-indigenous (post/colonial) European languages in the Rest of the world. In the countries where they are spoken, non-Eurasian languages have limited presence in the mass media, education, or in cyberspace. This linguistic imperialism <italic>par excellence</italic> is a long-lasting and pernicious legacy of European (western) colonialism. The aforementioned divide is strongly associated to the use of ethnolinguistic nationalism in state building across many areas of Eurasia, while this ideology is <italic>not</italic> employed for this purpose outside the region.</p></abstract>

Globalization in the early 21st century can be considered as the age of inequality that splits the world into the rich North and the poor South. From the perspective of language politics, only very few discussed the division across the globe, especially, between Eurasia and the “Rest of the world.” In Eurasia, indigenous languages and scripts are used in official capacity, while the same function is fulfilled almost exclusively by non-indigenous (post/colonial) European languages in the Rest of the world. In the countries where they are spoken, non-Eurasian languages have limited presence in the mass media, education, or in cyberspace. This linguistic imperialism par excellence is a long-lasting and pernicious legacy of European (western) colonialism. The aforementioned divide is strongly associated to the use of ethnolinguistic nationalism in state building across many areas of Eurasia, while this ideology is not employed for this purpose outside the region.

Global Language Politics: Eurasia versus the Rest

Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics

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Globalization in the early 21st century can be considered as the age of inequality that splits the world into the rich North and the poor South. From the...

Global Language Politics: Eurasia versus the Rest

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 117 - 151

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2020-0008

Keywords
Colonization, Cultural imperialism, Decolonization, Ethnolinguistic nationalism, Eurasia, Language politics, Linguistic imperialism, Scriptal imperialism

© 2020 Tomasz Kamusella, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Global Language Politics: Eurasia versus the Rest

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 117 - 151

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2020-0008

KeywordsColonization, Cultural imperialism, Decolonization, Ethnolinguistic nationalism, Eurasia, Language politics, Linguistic imperialism, Scriptal imperialism

© 2020 Tomasz Kamusella, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Colonization, Cultural imperialism, Decolonization, Ethnolinguistic nationalism, Eurasia, Language politics, Linguistic imperialism, Scriptal imperialism