Language planning and security of the national Language

Authors : Omed Barzan Brzoo

Pages : 31-42

Doi:10.21600/ijoks.288960

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Publication Date : 2017-01-25

Article Type : Research

Abstract :       This research is entitled "Language plan and security of the national Language" .It talks about the function and political role of language planning in maintaining national language security in the face of the conflicts and threats from other languages. The research comprises two parts: The first part talks about kurdish language and national language security in which attention has been given to the steps that the frequent regimes in Iraq have taken towards weakening and destroying the bases and authenticity of kurdish language. The second part has been devoted to the language policy and plan for the purpose of safeguarding national language security. In addition, the relation between language and identity as well as language policy and plan and their fundamental elements have been discussed. Further, the effect of Arabic and English languages on the syntactic structures of Kurdish has been discussed. At the end, the most important conclusions are put forward with a list of the references.
Keywords : Language planing, National Language, Identity, Genocide