Language and Nationality

Abstract

When people speak of language, they often link it to ethnicity; we believe that language is an important attribute that forms the identity of a nationality, and its development and evolution are contingent upon the development and evolution of that group. At the same time, when we speak of nationality, we also always think about language; we feel that a nationality cannot be considered apart from its language, and that the nature of a language influences the development of a nationality. Therefore, when linguists and ethnologists study the subjects of languages and nationalities, they very often encounter problems of how they are to understand the relationship between language and nationality, and they all feel that it is necessary to clarify the relationship between these two areas, from the standpoint of both theory and practice. While working on our country's nationalities work (including nationalities language work), we, too, often encounter questions that involve the relationship between language and...