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Many people have struggled throughout history to get language rights for themselves (and others). Language rights have been discussed and written about for quite some time, before and, especially, during the era of the League of Nations, and often by lawyers writing constitutions. Human rights is a much more thoroughly studied and clarified but still contested concept which has been at the centre of a whole field of study and politics, but, so far, by very few language experts.
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Skutnabb-Kangas, T. (1997). Human Rights and Language Policy in Education. In: Wodak, R., Corson, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4538-1_6
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