Política del lenguaje y derechos humanos lingüísticos en los Estados bálticos
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Ina Druviete [1]
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[1] Instituto Letón del Lenguaje
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- Localización: Alteridades, ISSN-e 2448-850X, ISSN 0188-7017, Vol. 5, Nº. 10, 1995 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Derechos humanos lingüísticos en sociedades multiculturales), págs. 105-120
- Idioma: español
- Títulos paralelos:
- Linguistic human rights in the Baltic states
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Resumen
The Baltic States - Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia - have regained their independence in 1991. During their 50-year period of incorporation into the USSR great ethnodemographic changes have taken place. The percentage of members of the titular nations diminished sig-nificantly in relation to the total population. And a decrease in the use of Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian,as well as asymmetric bilingualism, were observed. All three states adopted Language Laws in 1988which determined that the respective titular languages were to be the only official state languages. Nowadays the related changes in the language hierarchies are slowly taking place; the new state languages. are step-by-step replacing the Russian language, which previously covered all important sociolinguistic functions. The main goal of language policy in the Baltic states is to create a linguistically normalized society, where the titular languages function as the real state languages, and where loyal minorities live within a legal framework of cultural autonomy. This article analyzes the concept of collective linguistic rights for the Russian-speaking population, as well as the individual’s linguistic human rights in the Baltic states, against their political, ethnodemographic, and psychological background
