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Linguists find that police body camera footage shows racial disparities in officer respect.

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Turkey’s president wants to purge Western words from its language

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How the Miami Tribe got its language back (PRI podcast)

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The Strange Laws That Dictate What Your Doctor Tells You

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Radical Linguistics in an Age of Extinction

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Discussion about downvotes and languages other than English.

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Hybridity v. Revivability—an article on language revitalization from the perspective of Modern Hebrew [PDF]

Juan Cole on the Malaysian controversy over Christian use of the word "Allah"

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Agents du Commissariat aux langues officielles inspecteront plusieurs aéroports pour conformité à la loi.

John Conyers delivers opening statement in Spanish during HR 997 hearing.

Ukrainians Protest Proposed Language Reform (2010)

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NYT piece from 1906 on the spread of Esperanto to Russia (archive link to PDF)

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"Catastrophic Success" of Turkish language reform.

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Chinese government's funding of Southland school's language program fuels controversy...

Scripts, scriptures, and scribes: how different writing systems divide people otherwise united by language.

The Linguistic Roots of the Sri Lankan Civil War

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Hawaii's state constitution establishes English and Hawaiian as official languages.

Articles about how states, corporations, and other authorities deal with language, especially cases of oppression, valorisation, creolisation, and the like.

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Linguists find that police body camera footage shows racial disparities in officer respect.

Turkey’s president wants to purge Western words from its language

What are some real life examples of government creating laws to control language and how did that work out? • /r/linguistics

Discussion about downvotes and languages other than English.