Yet government practice has made it increasingly difficult for Tibetans to live, work, and study in their own language; Mandarin is now the primary language of instruction in many schools, official communications and education have been Sinicized, and hundreds of thousands of Tibetan children are forced to attend boarding schools where they are cut off from their families, cultures, communities, and language. (Read more about the impact of the boarding schools in our interview with activist Lhadon Tethong.) Activist Tashi Wangchuk has been repeatedly detained for his efforts to advocate for the protection of the Tibetan language.
søndag 15. desember 2024
Interview: Gerald Roche on the Erasure of Tibet’s Minority Languages
As the Chinese Communist Party has intensified its policy of assimilation for cultural and ethnic minority groups in recent decades, language has been a key part of that effort. Standard Tibetan is recognized as the official language of the Tibetans, who live throughout the Tibet Autonomous Region as well as in Tibetan areas in current Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.
