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Increased use of Latvian in education does not infringe ethnic Russians' rights, rules European court (eng.lsm.lv)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Increased use of Mandarin, however, obviously infringes of Chinese minority rights.

Edit: just to be clear, many Chinese dialects have a lower lexical similarity than European languages. The standardization of Mandarin in education has had impacts on these dialects as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Now let's compare changes in poverty, population, and growth statistics for Russians in Latvia, versus Uyghurs in China. Oh, oh no...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

What do you mean by "use"? Here the whole debable was about pre-school from what I understand. Russian is still studied as a language in primary school, let alone spoken home etc.

Also Latvian and Russian are quite different languages, although not so different as for example Estonian and Russian (where BTW similar measures in educations have been passed).