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Language Planning in Latvia as a Struggle for National Sovereignty

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Focuses in particular on the language policies of the Second Independence period, directed at ensuring the Latvian language the status of sole official language of the country. The chapter also examines the Russian-Latvian ethno-linguistic ‘cleavage’ in the context of the new language policies.

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Veisbergs, A. (2018). Language Planning in Latvia as a Struggle for National Sovereignty. In: Andrews, E. (eds) Language Planning in the Post-Communist Era. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70926-0_9

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