India s solution was quite the same it declared the selected nationlist One solution to this problem, adopted by Ireland, is to declare both the nationalistįormer coloniser (English) as official, and use English for immediate nationist Geographical territory, maintaining the language of the state it justįought against threatens its identity as a nation. Option for the governing language in a newly independent colony might be the old colonial language because thoseĮxperience already master this language. Regarding the involvement of multilingualism with society, nationism could workįor instance, on pragmatic terms, the best immediate Policies so that the language serves the flourishing of the state. The national language, promoting its acceptance to non-native speakers, and building Historically, the former route has been taken by most countries, which entails the rising of problems such as choosing There are two ways for multilingual states toĭevelop a national language, or try to spread nationalism beyond the grounds of Nation is more difficult for a multilingual state. As language holds importance in the unity of a nation, and nation-states are more likely to be stable Multilingualism could destroy nationalism.
At theĬommunicational challenges within a country can act as an impediment toĬommerce and industry and disrupt the nation. A possible scenario could be theĭutch Language un ion (Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname). First of all, just as a person couldĮxperience language loss, a society could gradually experience the death of a In and a possible miscommunication with the community s elders.At the societal level, as it is apparent that multilingualĬommunities have problems that more nearly monolingual ones do not, there areĮven more challenges posed by multilingualism (Fasold, 1984, p4). Due to different circumstances, Annie becameĬould lead to less interaction with the speech community At school, however, she only used English. Her community, including her grandmother. She used this language only with older people in The example of a 20-year-old Annie who was a young speaker of Dyirbal (an Australian Aboriginal language). To not only hinder social interaction but alsoĪnother challenge multilinguals encounter is
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Understand, therefore, it tends to be considered a bastardized blend of This resulting admixture usually makes it hard for outside observers to Polyglots usually find themselves in situations where they switch back andįorth between the languages (this phenomenon isĪlso known as code-switching). As it is almost impossible to select only one language or another, such People living in multilingual societies who are not monolingual are, daily, faced with the question of which language to use (Coulmas, 2013, p123). Prevalence of multilingualism, it is often agreed that multilingualism can beīoth a problem and a resource.Problems caused by multilingualism can easily be seen atīoth the individual and societal level. Though there have appeared countless studies and debates along with the Languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. This term, by broad definition, is the use of two or more The world is greater than the number of monolingual individuals (Paulston and In fact, the number of bilingual or multilingual individuals in Some of them are democracies (the USA, Australia, South Korea), one of them is a totalitarian state (North Korea), the national languages differ (English, Japanese, Korean), and the culture of the peoples differ (some are predominantly Christian, while at least one is predominantly Buddhist).LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY MULTILINGUALISM AS BOTH A PROBLEMĪND RESOURCEIn the modern world, multilingualism is a common There doesn't seem to be much in common with regards to the countries that lack an official language. Holy See, Iceland, Jamaica, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mexico, U.S., they are American Samoa, Australia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, The CIA lists no official language for 14 of them. There are 196 nations, according to, an online almanac. Politifact mentions that there are 14 countries without an official language: What influences a country having, or not having, an official language?
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