• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Democracy Chronicles

Towards better democracy everywhere.

  • AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
  • WORLD DEMOCRACY
  • POLITICAL ART
  • more
    • election technology
    • money politics
    • political dissidents
    • THIRD PARTY
      • third party central
      • green party
      • justice party
      • libertarian party
    • voting methods
  • DC INFO
    • author central
    • about
    • advertise with DC
    • contact
    • privacy policy
You are here: Home / Democracy News Headlines / International Democracy / China’s Effort to Silence the Sound of Uyghur Language

China’s Effort to Silence the Sound of Uyghur Language

May 17, 2019 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

FacebookLinkedInPinTweet

China’s Effort to Silence the Sound of Uyghur Language

The latest news out of China’s Xinjiang comes from a really interesting article at The Diplomat By Rustem Shir:

In the Chinese Communist Party’s drive to erase markers of Uyghur identity, the Uyghur language is a target because it is a Turkic language with many words of Arabic origin, and loanwords from Persian, and written in an Arabic-based script. These aspects of the Uyghur language serve to connect Uyghurs with Turkic and Islamic communities. The CCP seeks to sever these affinities and is using Mandarin language assimilation as a tool to reorient Uyghur identity.

This motive serves as the foundation of the Chinese government’s decades-long strategy to normalize Mandarin as the primary language of communication for the ethnic minority communities of Xinjiang. As part of this plan, CCP language policy on education has shifted from the tolerance of ethnic minority languages to their prohibition, concurrent with the promotion of Mandarin.

See full story here.

FacebookLinkedInPinTweet

Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Asia, China, Dictatorships, Uyghur People

Some highlighted Democracy Chronicles topics

Africa American Corruption American Local Elections American State Elections Asia Capitalism and Big Business Celebrity Politics China Democracy Charity Democracy Protests Democrats Dictatorships Education Election History Election Methods Election Security Election Transparency Europe Internet and Democracy Journalism and Free Speech Middle East Minority Voting Rights Money Politics New York City and State Elections Political Artwork Political Dissidents Political Lobbying Redistricting Republicans Russia Socialism and Labor Social Media and Democracy South America Spying and Privacy Supreme Court Third Party Voter Access Voter ID Voter Registration Voter Suppression Voter Turnout Voting Technology Women Voting Rights Worldwide Worldwide Corruption

About DC Editors

We are your source for news on the all important effort to establish and strengthen democracy across the globe. Our international team with dozens of independent authors are your gateway into the raging struggle for free and fair elections on every continent with a focus on election reform in the United States. See our Facebook Page and also follow us on Twitter @demchron.

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

democracy chronicles newsletter

democracy around the web

  • The Impoundment Act, Polarization, Bipartisan...
    Source: Election Law Blog Published on: 8 hours ago
  • Journalist Comlan Hugues Sossoukpè forcibly e...
    Source: Committee to Protect Journalists Published on: 9 hours ago
  • CPJ, Freedom House urge U.S. gov to maintain...
    Source: Committee to Protect Journalists Published on: 9 hours ago
  • FL Supreme Court Upholds Congressional Distri...
    Source: Election Law Blog Published on: 12 hours ago
  • UK Plans to Lower Voting Age to 16
    Source: Election Law Blog Published on: 12 hours ago