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The minorities that are examples of successful linguistic renaissance are often territorial minorities large enough and cohesive enough to have claimed and to have gained a degree of autonomy. They are often termed nations without states (Guibernau 1999). Within the states in which they are embedded they have often replicated some of the linguistic aspects of nation building, if on a smaller scale.
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Wright, S. (2016). New Polities and New Nation Building. In: Language Policy and Language Planning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-57647-7_11
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