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Linguistic Minority Rights in the Danish-German Border Region: Reciprocity and Public Administration Policies
In: International Journal on Minority and Group RightsLanguage equality is not public policy in Denmark or Germany, and neither country has adopted an official state language constitutionally. Both countries protect minority languages through regional and local statutes on culture and education and have signed relevant international standards on linguistic rights for minorities and protection of regional or minority languages. Neither system is very transparent, nor comprehensive. This has created consternation and dissatisfaction among the national minorities residing in the Danish-German border region resulting in recent tensions in the municipalities in Southern Denmark, whereas the government of Schleswig-Holstein decided in 2015 to address the issue with policy reforms for public administration. This article focuses on linguistic minority rights in the Danish-German border region with specific attention to minority languages in public administration and specifically to the on-going reforms in Schleswig-Holstein.
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T. Steensen, ‘19. und 20. Jahrhundert’, in Geschichte Nordfrieslands (Nordfriisk Instituut, Heide, Verlag Boyens & Co., 1996) pp. 207–435, 231–234, 244–247.
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Henningsen, supra note 10.
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Henningsen, supra note 10, pp. 96–98.
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Steensen, supra note 13, pp. 341–354.
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Steensen, supra note 13, p. 349.
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Henningsen, supra note 10, p. 99.
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Council of Europe, supra note 8, p. 4.
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Schleswig-Holstein Parliament, supra note 41, p. 8702.
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Linguistic Minority Rights in the Danish-German Border Region: Reciprocity and Public Administration Policies
In: International Journal on Minority and Group RightsLanguage equality is not public policy in Denmark or Germany, and neither country has adopted an official state language constitutionally. Both countries protect minority languages through regional and local statutes on culture and education and have signed relevant international standards on linguistic rights for minorities and protection of regional or minority languages. Neither system is very transparent, nor comprehensive. This has created consternation and dissatisfaction among the national minorities residing in the Danish-German border region resulting in recent tensions in the municipalities in Southern Denmark, whereas the government of Schleswig-Holstein decided in 2015 to address the issue with policy reforms for public administration. This article focuses on linguistic minority rights in the Danish-German border region with specific attention to minority languages in public administration and specifically to the on-going reforms in Schleswig-Holstein.
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| Abstract Views | 300 | 29 | 2 |
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| PDF Views & Downloads | 83 | 10 | 3 |