Language movement

Language movement or Language Movement may refer to:

Language campaigns

• Plain Language Movement, a campaign to make writing easy to read, understand, and use
• Language revitalization, attempts by interested parties to reverse the decline of a language that is endangered, moribund, or extinct
• Linguistic purism, the practice of defining one variety of a language as being purer than other varieties
• Language secessionism, an attitude supporting the separation of a language variety from other forms of the language in order to make it a distinct language

Language-specific social and political movements

• Afrikaans language movement, originating in late 19th century South Africa
• Andalusian language movement, a fringe movement promoting Andalusian as an independent language separate from Spanish, with attempts at standardizing Andalusian
• Baloch independence movement, a movement that claims the Baloch people, an ethno-linguistic group mainly found in Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, are a distinct nation
• Bengali language movement, a political movement in former East Pakistan (currently Bangladesh) advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as an official language of the then-Dominion of Pakistan
• Bengali language movement in India, a campaign to preserve Bengali language and Bengalis culture in India
• English-only movement, a political movement to use English as the only language in official government operations in the United States of America
• Gaelic revival, the late-nineteenth-century national revival of interest in the Irish language and Irish Gaelic culture
  • Language Freedom Movement, an organization opposing the state-sponsored revival of the Irish language
• Illyrian movement, a pan-South-Slavist cultural and political campaign during the first half of the 19th century
• Kamtapur language movement, A linguistic campaign for Kamtapuri or Rajbanshi language in Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar districts of West Bengal; Jharkhand and Bihar, India.
• Meitei language movement (also known as Manipuri language movement)
  • Meitei linguistic purism movement, an ongoing linguistic movement, aimed to attain linguistic purism in Meitei language
  • Scheduled language movement, a historical linguistic movement in Northeast India, aimed at the recognition of Meitei language as one of the official languages of the Indian Republic
  • Meitei classical language movement, an ongoing linguistic movement in Northeast India, aimed at the recognition of Meitei language as a "classical language"
  • Meitei associate official language movement, a semi active linguistic movement in Northeast India, aimed at the recognition of Meitei language as an "associate" official language of Assam
• Nepal Bhasa movement, a movement for linguistic rights of Nepal Bhasa speakers in Nepal
• Nepali language movement, a movement for linguistic rights of Nepali language speakers in India
• Norwegian language conflict, an ongoing controversy within Norwegian culture and politics related to spoken and written Norwegian
• Punjabi Language Movement, a linguistic movement in Punjab, Pakistan aimed at reviving Punjabi language, art, and culture
• Rajasthani language movement, a campaign for greater recognition for the Rajasthani language
• Reintegrationism, a linguistic and cultural movement in Galicia which views Galician and Portuguese as a single language
• Scandinavian movement, literary and political movements that support various degrees of cooperation among the Scandinavian or Nordic countries
• Urdu movement, a socio-political movement aimed at making Urdu the universal language and symbol of the cultural and political identity of the Muslim communities of the Indian subcontinent

Linguistic theory

• Movement (sign language), the distinctive hand actions that form words in sign languages
• Syntactic movement, the means by which some theories of syntax address discontinuities
• Tough movement, theories about the movement of certain types of objects in formal syntax
• Wh-movement, a mechanism of syntax that helps express a question.

See also

• Language Movement Day, a national day of Bangladesh to commemorate the Bengali Language Movement

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