On Problems Of Legal Protection Of The Minority Languages Right In China

Language is an important carrier of human thinking activity is an important tool for human beings to express their thoughts,carry on social exchanges and inherit historical culture.Language as an important indicator of the identification of ethnic groups,preservation and dissemination of national history and culture,enhance national cohesion,so that the maintenance of national order common value guidelines for all members of the nation known and abide by.China has 55 ethnic minorities,with the exception of Hui,Manchu has been fully converted to Chinese,the other 53 ethnic groups have their own languages,some ethnic groups also use different branches of different languages,the 55 ethnic minorities,A total of 72 languages.These languages are divided into five different languages,can be grouped into three different types of language,is China's intangible cultural heritage of valuable resources.Among them,Mongolian,Uighur,Tibetan,Miao,Yi and other cross-border ethnic languages are almost the same language with the language of the same language and belong to different countries of the product of the same,the use and development of these languages,For the border areas of national stability and construction,for the development of border trade has a very special significance and value.The Chinese government has always attached great importance to the protection of minority language rights.The Constitution,the Law on Regional National Autonomy,and the autonomous laws and regulations have basically formed the legal protection system for the minority languages.Since the founding of the People's Republic of China,remarkable achievements have been made in the protection of minority languages and languages in China.However,the existing laws and regulations are from the national ethnic language policy and national language planning point of view,in order to protect minority national use and development of the rights of the national language and the provisions of the full meaning of the minority language has not been written Into the scope of the adjustment of the law.Although the use and development rights of the minority languages are affirmed in the Constitution and the Law on Regional National Autonomy,the special legislation on minority languages has not yet been enacted.As a result,the scope of the rights of ethnic languages is too narrow,blurry.The existing norms of principle,the lack of operability,rights protection is not enough.Under the market economic system,the traditional culture of ethnic minority has been unprecedented impact,the process of urbanization exacerbated the disappearance of language speed and breadth.At present,there are about 20 minority languages in our country endangered.This large number of high-speed language loss is not only the loss of traditional Chinese culture,but also a major loss of human cultural heritage.