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Websites in Language

1. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and the Revival of Hebrew
   The life and work of the founder of the Hebrew Language Council, the forerunner of today's Hebrew Language Academy, the supreme arbiter and authority on all matters pertaining to the Hebrew language.
   http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/ben_yehuda.html
   
   
2. Eurolang
   An independent Brussels-based news agency providing daily news coverage of events that matter to Europe's minority language communities.
   http://www.eurolang.net/
   
   
3. Forgetting Latgalian
   Article concerning the politics of distinguishing between a language and a dialect.
   http://www.balticsww.com/latgalian.htm
   
   
4. How the Norwegian Parliament Banned the National Language
   A political history of the Norwegian language by Ingar Holst.
   http://www.holst.no/Ingar.Holst.Publishing.Co/irregular-papers/irr1a.html
   
   
5. Israel: Language Policy
   Profile of the role of Hebrew in Israeli government and education.
   http://www.biu.ac.il/hu/lprc/lprcprof.htm
   
   
6. Language Problems and Language Planning
   International multi-lingual journal that publishes articles primarily on political, sociological, and economic aspects of language and language use. Site includes submission and subscription information, contents and abstracts.
   http://www.benjamins.com/jbp/journals/Lplp_info.html
   
   
7. Nationalism and Language
   An essay by Bozidar Jaksic on linguistic identity and policy in the Balkans.
   http://users.volja.net/romag/pub/Nationalism-and-Language.html
   
   
8. Politics and the English Language
   An essay by George Orwell.
   http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.html
   
   

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