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The Fight Over Language, From Haiti to Kyrgyzstan

April 13, 2025
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In the coming weeks, Flash Points will have a new name: The Reading List. Expect continued curated guides to the best articles in the magazine. Each Sunday, I’ll take you on a little tour through our archives; on Wednesdays, my colleague Audrey Wilson will send out a companion email to help you navigate trends in the current news cycle.

For now, let’s turn to a subject that is often overlooked in headlines of war and conquest: the imperial tool of language. The in-depth essays and reporting below explore the geopolitics of ongoing fights over language, shedding light on the cultural and linguistic dimensions of imperialism and resistance, both past and present.


Students sit at desks in a classroom.

Students sit at desks in a classroom.

Who Speaks English?

The world is long overdue for the abandonment of the unstated but powerful hegemony that exists around the great imperial languages of centuries past.


A small market on Song Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan.

A small market on Song Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan.

Russian Won’t Be Kyrgyzstan’s Lingua Franca for Long

The war in Ukraine is leading to a linguistic backlash in Russophone Central Asia as young people embrace their mother tongues.


A Tibetan prayer flag

A Tibetan prayer flag

Tibetans Fight to Keep Their Language Alive

The diaspora is preserving Tibetan as Chinese oppression grows at home.


Students look at booklets at their desks on the first day back to school at the National School of Tabarre in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Sept. 5, 2016.

Students look at booklets at their desks on the first day back to school at the National School of Tabarre in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Sept. 5, 2016.

Haiti’s Foreign Language Stranglehold

Around 90 percent of Haitians speak only Haitian Creole. So why is school mostly conducted in French?

 

About 500 pupils and their parents protest against the language education reform in front of the parliament in Latvia on Feb 10, 2005.

About 500 pupils and their parents protest against the language education reform in front of the parliament in Latvia on Feb 10, 2005.

Latvia Is Going on Offense Against Russian Culture

The Baltic nation is taking cultural cohesion into its own hands—and risking backlash.

The post The Fight Over Language, From Haiti to Kyrgyzstan appeared first on Foreign Policy.

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