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Linguistic discrimination

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Xinjiang internment camps
Chinese concentration camps in XUAR province, where religious and ethnic repression is carried out against traditionally Muslim peoples, classified as ethnocide, ethnic cleansing and genocide
persecution of Uyghurs in China
ongoing persecution of ethnic and religious minorities in northwestern China under Xi Jinping's administration
linguistic discrimination
discrimination on the basis of language of an individual
linguistic imperialism
transfer of a dominant language to other people, as a demonstration of military of economic power, along with other aspects of the dominant culture
Italianization
right|thumb|A leaflet from the period of Fascist Italianization prohibiting singing or speaking in the "Slavic language" in the streets, public places and shops of Dignano (now Vodnjan, [[Croatia). Signed by the Squadristi (blackshirts), and threatening the use of "persuasive methods" in enforcement.]]
Russification of Ukraine
process of cultural assimilation of Ukraine by Russia
francization of Brussels
language shift from Dutch to French in Brussels
Vergonha
In Occitan, vergonha (, ) refers to the effects of various language discriminatory policies of the government of France on its minority or regional languages, (including Romance languages such as Occitan and Catalan, as well as non-Romance languages such as Alsatian and Basque), deemed patois, as opposed to standard French Vergonha is imagined as a process of "being made to reject and feel ashamed of one's (or one's parents') mother tongue through official exclusion, humiliation at school and rejection from the media", as organized and sanctioned by French political leaders from Henri Grégoire
Goa Inquisition
established in 1560 to force conversion to the Roman Catholic Church in Portuguese India
anti-Catalan sentiment
hatred for Catalonia, Catalans or their culture
prestige
term for the level of regard normally given to a language or dialect within a speech community relative to others
minoritized language
language that is marginalized, persecuted or banned
Declaration on the Common Language
statement that Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin are four varieties of a single pluricentric language
de-Tatarization of Crimea
Welsh Not
device to stigmatise and punish children for speaking Welsh rather than English in schools
Sōshi-kaimei
was a policy of pressuring Koreans under Japanese rule to adopt Japanese names and identify as such. The primary reason for the policy was to forcibly assimilate Koreans, as was done with the Ainu and the Ryukyuans. The has been deemed by historians as one of the many aspects of cultural genocide that the Japanese attempted to impose on their non-Japanese territories.
sinicization of Tibet
policy of destroying the Tibetan indigenous culture and replacing it with the Han colonial one
Citizen, speak Turkish!
Turkish government-funded initiative
symbole
thumb|"Speak French, Be Clean" written on the wall of the Ayguatébia-Talau school
2020 Inner Mongolia protests
protest events in Inner Mongolia, China
Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf
1880 deaf educational congress in Milan, Italy
speak white
Imperative phraseme used to order someone to speak English.
Regulation 17
Regulation of the Government of Ontario, Canada
dialect card
punitive mark used by some teachers to indicate a person speaks a non-standard dialect
Battalion for the Defence of the Language
Anti-Yiddish group in Mandatory Palestine
chronology of Ukrainian language suppression
2010 Tibetan language protest
series of protests in China