
Conlangery #127: Language Policy
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The Importance of Academic Registers for Minority Languages
There may be, if there's a strong desire for multilingualism, then you might have kind of the development of schooling systems that maintain language of instruction for minority languages. In Nigeria, I was told that Nigeria even has colleges where the language of instruction is in the big three, the house of Yoruba and Igbo, in addition to English. There's not university instruction in all of them. A lot of times it's going to take public resources in order to develop kind of that academic register for the smaller languages.
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