National feeling or responsibility

The case of the Csángó language revitalization

Bibliographic Data

ID7437443
AuthorsKlára Sándor (0000-0003-4233-1804, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume19
Issue1-2
Pages141-168
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMultilingua (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0167-8507 • E-ISSN: 1613-3684
PublisherDe Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/mult.2000.19.1-2.141
OpenAlexW2066803176
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited2

During the past decades several attempts have been made in various parts of the world to revitalize languages whose speakers are constantly decreasing.Such an attempt was also made in Hungary and the Hungarian-speaking regions of Rumania in the 1990s, when some people attempted to revitalize the one-time Hungarian mother tongue of the Csángós, an originally Hungarian-speaking group which has lived for centuries in isolation from the other Hungarian-speaking regions.The majority of the Csángós are monolingual Rumanian speakers today but some of them still speak their Csángó dialects of Hungarian origin.As part of the revitalization program, Csángó youths were taken to Hungarian schools and universities in Transylvania (Rumania) and Hungary to learn Hungarian.After a brief introduction of the Csángós, this paper analyzes the reasons why this schooling action was doomed to inevitable failure.The program suffered from a lack of linguistic and pedagogical planning, and those involved in its implementation disregarded the linguistic, cultural, social, and economic differences between the Csángós and the Hungarians

Language planning · Polish · Gender Studies in Language · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy

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