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Chapters in this book

1. I-VIII I
2. Introduction: Exploring an overlooked sociolinguistic phenomenon (The First Congress for Language X) 1
3. The First Language Congress for Afrikaans 11
4. The Academic Conference on the Reform of Belorussian Orthography and Alphabet (Minsk 1926): A unique non-event? 31
5. The First International Catalan Language Congress, Barcelona, 13–18 October, 1906 47
6. Integration vs. particularism: The undeclared issue at the first “Dutch Congress” in 1849 69
7. The First Congress for Hebrew, or When is a congress not a congress? 85
8. The First Congress of Hindi 117
9. The first efforts to promote and develop Indonesian 129
10. The emergence of the Korean script as a symbol of Korean identity 143
11. The first philological conference for the establishment of the Macedonian alphabet and the Macedonian literary language: Its precedents and consequences 159
12. The First Congress for Malay 181
13. The First Congress of Mayan Languages of Guatemala (1949) 199
14. Language purism and propaganda: The First Congress for Polish 219
15. The First Workshop on Quechua and Aymara Writing 233
16. The First Congress for Tok Pisin in 1973 257
17. The First Turkish Language Congress 271
18. The 1928 Ukrainian orthography 293
19. Senegalese languages in education: The First Congress of Wolof 305
20. The Tshernovits Conference revisited: The First World Conference for Yiddish, 85 years later 321
21. The “First Congress” phenomenon: Arriving at some general conclusions 333
22. Topical Index 349
23. 352 352