The Situation And Outlook Of Language Legislation On American

“there are 2,500 kinds of languages are endanger of extinction”,which is released in the UN and Endangered Language Atlas in 2010 by the UNESCO,there are 6,700 languages existing in the world,of which there are 199 languages using less than 10 people.All over the world,every two weeks there is a language disappeared from the earth on average.UN held the international conference of experts for the endangered languages,which issued on the document that linguistic diversity is the most important heritage of mankind,each language contains a unique cultural wisdom,the disappearance of any language is going to be a whole human losses.The research of official language legislation,namely the research of “status planning”,is an important part of the research of language planning,which is not only the dominant link of a country language policy,but also the guarantee of language planning.The purpose of language legislation is that through legislation to determine national official language,standard language and its usage,to determine some language in national of legal status,to regulate the relationship of various ethnic languages to ensure the linguistic rights both ethnic and individual,which in favor of reducing and preventing linguistic contradictions and conflicts,provides principles of good language to promote the healthy and orderly development of language,give full play to its functions in social life,social progress and the development of better services.The language policy of a country or nation can fully reflect the language of opinion,attitudes,positions or language patterns.As the concentrated reflection of language policy,language planning and language development,language law is not only determines the status and function of language,but also for the preservation of languages and development and national,individual learning,using the guarantee of language rights.To some extent,United States American language legislation and policy research helps uslook into its social structure,and understanding its mainstream ideology and its political culture which hidden under the explicit legislative policy.Making language policy and language legislation is the main tool of a country to intervene in the usage of language.A country with regard to language policy and language law which,to a large extent,how the country address national issues.National is the cornerstone of national construction and development,and protection of national rights is the inherent requirement of maintaining ethnic harmony and national stability.The development and implementation of national language policies in line with national development needs,direct impact on people’s rights protection and harmonious national relations.Exploring the protection of language policy and language development of the USA,analyzing the reasons of their success on language maintenance,learning their experiences and lessons on language protection,all of these are in favor of helping us making language policy and protection measures according to our circumstances related to minorities.Further more,promoting the diversified development of the national language and the stability of the country.