The Office of the Languages Commissioner of Nunavut website for protection of language and cultures - information about language rights and how these rights can be defended

Language Teacher Training and Bilingual Education in Finland

Bilingual language system in Finish school system

Language Policy and Planning in Senegal (from the Association for the Development of Education in Africa)

Language policy and planning in Tunisia, by Mohamed Daoud

Language Policy, Language Planning in Korea, by Gábor Osváth

Language planning in China bibliography

Language Policy in Multilingual Switzerland, by Francois Grin

Religion and Language - a handout / outline from a Language Policy course at the Univ. of Pennsylvania

Languages in Contact and Conflict: An Overview of Language and Education Policies for Ethnic Minorities in the Netherlands

Linguistic Rights, Language Policy and Democracy in Post-Apartheid South Africa, by Neville Alexander

Will the Internet Always Speak English? (The American Prospect Online)
This article explores the dominant use of English on the internet.

Language Australia - The National Languages & Literacy Institute of Australia - contains information about language, literacy, and multicultural issues.

Links to information about the language futures of Europe - on language policy, multilingualism, global language structures, and the dominance of English.

Links on language policy in Europe ( in German.)

Mercator Linguistic Rights and Legislation - research network and information service concerning regional and minority languages in the European Union

Ukraine: parliament to mull ratification of minority-language charter, giving rights to minority languages

The Plural of Euro is Euros, by Michael Everson
Corpus planning about how to pluralize "euro"

English comes first in eastern Switzerland

"Language safeguards unveiled" article about the measures taken to save the Welch language (BBC News Wednesday, 27 November, 2002, 19:44 GMT)

An effort to save Yiddish is gaining. Books and recordings are being salvaged. More ultra-Orthodox are using it in schools and daily life (Philadelphia Enquirer, Nov. 28, 2002, By Evan Osnos)

L'Chiam!Renewed pride among Jews spurs a modest revival of the Yiddish language,
By Evan Osnos

Language Policies in Central Asia
This website discusses Russian language planning in Kazakhstan

Website about language planning in Australia

Human Rights Watch - Questions and Answers: Freedom of Expression and Language Rights in Turkey

More French Needed Online (Politics Watch, Oct. 3, 2002)
Canada's Commissioner of Official Languages is concerned with the amount of French content on the Internet, citing government inabilities to provide translated documents online.

Romanization and language planning in Taiwan
Although Taiwan is currently a Hanji-dominated society, Romanization was in fact the first writing system used, and was introduced by Dutch missionaries in the first half of the 17th century.

An essay discussing the role of foreign languages, especially English, in Japanese society

Issues of language planning in Peru with Quechua language

Galician sociolinguistics and language planning

Book Review of: Language Education Policy: The Arab Minority in Israel, by Muhammad Hasan Amara and Abd Al-Rahman Mar'I

Back from the dead: UK's new language, By Jonathan Duffy BBC News Online
Cornish to become an official language of the UK

St. Petersburg Journal; He Celebrates That Word, but He'd Stamp It Out, by Michael Wines, NY Times June 3, 2002 - Campaign to outlaw dirty words in Russia

Choosing English over Hokkein, By Wang Wei-ming, Taipei Times Online, March 30, 2002
Legislators have proposed making Hokkien the second official language of Taiwan but opinion polls showed popular opinions in favor of making English the second official language, alongside Mandarin.

Website with links to the future of languages in Europe. Includes links to language policy, multilingualism, global language structures, and the dominance of English.

The languages of universities website lists several areas of policy on languages, at universities in Europe

Native American Language Policy

Bibliography of sociolinguistics and language policy in Scotland