Publications

Publication details [#51949]

Nyika, Nicholus. 2009. Language complaints as an instrument of language rights activism: The case of PanSALB as a guardian of the right to mother-tongue education. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 40 (2) : 239–260.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

complaining | language policy | language status | language use | multilingualism

Language as a subject

Afrikaans | Languages, South African

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Focusing in particular on Afrikaans and the South African languages, this paper explores the language and education issues covered in the (language rights activism instrument of) language (rights violations) complaints lodged with the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB) from 1997 to 2007.