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McLeod W, 'Autochthonous language communities and the Race Relations Act', [1998] 1 Web JCLI (6876 words) |
 | Even if the autochthonous language communities do not merit recognition as racial groups in their own right, such discrimination claims could readily be defeated, depending on the nature of the job at issue, but justifying autochthonous language requirements may require a complex and sensitive analysis, attuned to various competing legal and social policies. |
| Language cannot properly be considered something that stands alone; in particular, it very often tends to create among its speakers "a cultural tradition of [their] own" (Mandla [1983] 2 AC at 562), and it is certainly arguable that such a distinct tradition can be discerned among Welsh speakers. |
| The autochthonous language communities are at the margins of British life, typically ignored by politicians, scholars and activists focused on the urban centre. |
| Indigenous language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (164 words) |
| An indigenous language or autochthonous language is a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous peoples. |
| This language would be from a linguistically distinct community that has been settled in the area for many generations. |
| Indigenous languages may not be national languages, or may have fallen out of use, because of language deaths or linguicide caused by colonization, where the original language is replaced by that of the colonists. |
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