Linguistic minorities and literacy / Florian Coulmas (16 p.). -- Minority languages and literacy / Ayo Bamgbose (8 p.). -- Consequences of initiating literacy in the second language / R.N Srivastava (10 p.). -- Literacy education for minorities : a case study from India / R.N Srivastava (8 p.). -- Problem of minority languages in the overall linguistic problems of our time / S. Takdir Alisjahbana (9 p.). -- Linguistic minorities and language policy in Latin America : the case of Mexico / Rodolfo Stavenhagen (7 p.). -- China's minorities / Jerold A Edmondson (14 p.). -- Concept of language standardization and its application to the Indonesian language / S. Takdir Alisjahbana (22 p.). -- Linguistic minorities and national languages / R.N Srivastava (16 p.). -- Literacy and minorities / J.V Neustupny (14 p.)
Notes
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Most of the papers are based on presentations given at a workshop held under the auspices of the United Nations University in Tokyo, Sept. 4-5, 1982