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Examples showing that people are treated unequally on basis of language in india

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Linguistic discrimination (also called glottophobia, linguicism and languagism) is unfair treatment which is based on use of language and characteristics of speech, including first language, accent, size of vocabulary (whether the speaker uses complex and varied words), modality, and syntax. For example, an Occitan-speaker in France will probably be treated differently from a French-speaker.[1] Based on a difference in use of language, a person may automatically form judgments about another person's wealth, education, social status, character or other traits, which may lead to discrimination.

In the mid-1980s, linguist Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, captured the idea of language-based discrimination as linguicism, which was defined as "ideologies and structures which are used to legitimate, effectuate, and reproduce unequal division of power and resources (both material and non-material) between groups which are defined on the basis of language".[2] Although different names have been given to this form of discrimination, they all hold the same definition. It is also important to note that linguistic discrimination is culturally and socially determined due to preference for one use of language over others.

Carolyn McKinley[3] is critical of a dominant language because it does not only discriminate against speakers of other languages, it also disadvantages monolinguals because they remain monolingual.[4] Instead of using the indigenous languages along with the colonial languages, as McKinley also advocates, most African states still use the colonial language as the main medium of instruction.[4] Furthermore, in authoritative reports by Unesco, it was found that the use of the former colonial languages in Africa benefited only the elite and disadvantaged the bulk of the populations.[4] Although English has worldwide meaning as a language of discourse, it is not neutral as it leads too much to a culture-dependent perspective in thinking and talking by the use of culturally bound value concepts, often blind value judgments and frames of reference inherent to and shaped by English culture, according to Anna Wierzbicka.

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