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Cherokee is one of the few, or perhaps the only, Native American language with an increasing population of speakers, [119] and along with Navajo it is the only indigenous American language with more than 50,000 speakers, [120] a figure most likely achieved through the tribe's 10-year long language preservation plan involving growing new ...
The Language Access Act of 2004 guarantees equal access and participation in public services, programs, and activities for residents of the District of Columbia who cannot (or have limited capacity to) speak, read, or write English.
Language policy has been defined in a number of ways. According to Kaplan and Baldauf (1997), "A language policy is a body of ideas, laws, regulations, rules and practices intended to achieve the planned language change in the societies, group or system" (p. xi [3]).
The Native American Languages Act of 1990 (NALA) is a US statute that gives historical importance as repudiating past policies of eradicating indigenous languages of the Americas [clarification needed] by declaring as policy that Native Americans were entitled to use their own languages. The fundamental basis of the policy's declaration was ...
Language, in this circumstance was given a set of guidelines that stated it must be productive, have the ability to produce an infinite number of sentences that cover every available topic, and introduces, uses, and relates symbols, [5] This definition also needed to be broadened to accommodate for the thousands of different dialects in every ...
The United States does not have a comprehensive federal language policy or an official national language.The status of a national language of the United States is a contentious political debate, and many bills establishing English as the official language of the United States have been sponsored in Congress, though none have been passed into law.
Sociopolitical perspectives on language policy and planning in the USA. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 1-55619-735-7. Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Policy Statement of the TESOL Board on African American Vernacular English. March 10, 1997. Weldon, Tracey L. (Autumn 2000).
Sticker sold in Colorado demanding immigrants speak English. The English-only movement, also known as the Official English movement, is a political movement that advocates for the exclusive use of the English language in official United States government communication through the establishment of English as the only official language in the United States.