| Since the 16 th century, the content of the protection about national language appears in the treaty between countries, after world war Ⅱ, minority language rights protection law system is formed gradually,The United Nations and regional organizations, non governmental organizations promulgated the protection of minority language rights in international treaties, conventions and declarations, on the basis of summing up the achievement of protection of the rights of minority language, it provides corresponding evidence in international law for the protection of minority language rights; at the same time, with the development of the theory of international human rights law, countries obtain much valuable experience and lessons in the process of protecting domestic ethnic minority language rights, which provides beneficial reference to minority language rights protection that based on its own conditions in our country.Our country has 55 ethnic minorities, in addition to the Hui and Man have all switched to Chinese, the other 53 ethnic minorities have their own languages, some of them use different languages between different branches and between different regions within a minority. At present, there are 55 ethnic minorities in China and 129 minority languages known to us, these languages are precious resources of intangible cultural heritage. The main pattern of protection of minority languages is unified diversity, our country pay much attention to the protection of the minority language rights. The constitution, the Law of Regional Ethnic, department laws and local regulations and international convention signed between country and country, such as International convention on economic, social and cultural rights; International convention on civil and political rights and so on. These international conventions consist of the legal system for protection of minority language in our country.Through field investigation and data query, the author learns that China has made gratifying achievements on the protection of minority language, to compare with multilingual countries such as Australia, Canada, the language policy of China is not perfect, but there is no detour, for it is not like the developed countries that suffer from language assimilation and other languages are exclusive. The right of use of minority language and development in our country’s political, economic, cultural, social and other fields is widely affirmed; however, the special legislation on ethnic minority languages has not yet been produced, this leads to a national language rights protection in China still exist in the scope of protection is too narrow, the content is relatively general, fuzzy, existing legal norms of principle is too strong, the lack of specific operational, the lack of rights protection is far from enough, and so on. At present, the existing more than 20 species of minority language, this amount, high speed of language disappear is not only a loss in the field of Chinese traditional culture, but also is the badly loss of human cultural heritage.The urgent affair to Save endangered ethnic minority languages is to improve the existing legal protection system in our country. This paper studies the situation of minority language right using in international law and analyzes the relevant international legislation and practice from all over the world, then take the materials as a breakthrough point, this paper points out some advantages and disadvantages of China’s minority language rights law protection system and the problem caused by lack of legal protection of minority languages, based on the understanding of national minority language rights protection in our country by using the way of doing field survey, so that we can inherit those achievements in our national language work and draw lessons from foreign advanced experience from other countries. Finally, the author puts forward to some superficial suggestions in perfecting our country national minority language rights law protection system. |
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