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Баатрынсэнтий Cимбун
BAATRYNSENTII (BATOSEITEI) SHINBUN
5600, May 15
Government's New Linguistic Policies Draw Controversy, Tokundian Alphabet Formally Adopted
The new ruling People's Party under newly inaugurated President Tsakhia Tömörbaatar has drawn widespread attention from all ethnic groups in Mūngerica for his administration's signing into law of the "National Language Act" (NLA). The NLA states that it is the government's intent to eventually replace Kunigo, the common language of Mūngerica, with Panmuan. As of January 5590, 92% of the population was estimated to be proficient in the Kunigo language, but only around 41% speak academically proficient Panmuan. Despite Mūngerica's population being a supermajority 82% ethnic Panmuan, centuries of Kunigo's national influence as an administrative lingua canrillica (IRL: lingua franca) have meant that even those of Panmuan descent are more likely in modern Mūngerica to speak the Kunigo language as a first language. Kunigo is also spoken by ethnic minorities like the Bianjie, Sekowan, Kunihito, Vanukean, Jelbic, and Dundorfian communities as a common tongue of communication within the nation.
Nonetheless, this is only a statement of intent. The NLA's actual administrative provisions call for Mūngerica to continue using both Panmuan and Kunigo as co-official national languages. To strengthen the nation's cultural identity the NLA also calls for the re-introduction of the traditional Panmuan script. To facilitate this transition, the government has introduced a new Tokundian-based alphabet to represent the Panmuan language as a replacement for the antiquated Selucian script, which the administration claims is unfit to represent the Panmuan language due to its' connection to the Vanukean colonial legacy. Tokundian and Traditional Panmuan script will be used together to represent Panmuan, alongside Kunigo as a co-official language. This is just the latest in a series of radical reforms that the People's Party claims will help Mūngerica finally achieve "a state of democratic Majority Rule".
Many Panmuans, who consider themselves part of the Gao-Showan World, are deeply disapproving of the efforts to linguistically sever Mūngerica from the interconnected Kunigo-speaking world. The nation's largest opposition party, the Union Party of Mūngerica, who promote a Pan-Gaoic cultural policy and include the Gaoic People's Revolutionary Party (GPRP) in their coalition, have called for the Administration to reverse their efforts to curb the use of Kunigo for Panmuan when the majority of the nation already accept Kunigo as the de facto supreme national language. The Union Party noted that the continued use of Kunigo is not just a cultural issue, but as one of Terra and Dovani's major languages and the lingua canrillica of the Gao-Showan World, Kunigo opens and facilitates economic opportunity for Panmuans to engage with the world economy. The Union Party has resolved to continue promotion of the Kunigo language in all affairs.
IN OTHER NEWS:
Purity Party, Mūngerica Civic Union both Ordered Dissolved by Supreme Court
Both the Purity Party (純粋黨, ᠠᠷᠢᠭᠤᠨ ᠨᠠᠮ/Ариун Нам, Partia Czystości - PC) and the Mūngerica Civic Union (懞好市民黨, ᠮᠠᠭᠤᠩᠭᠡᠷ ᠢᠷᠭᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠨᠠᠮ/Муунгөр Иргэний Нам, Mūngörreich Bürger Bund - MBB) have been ruled to be in violation of the new Law on Media Regulation and have been ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court.
The PC was a political party representing the interests of the small but historically and socially significant Vanukean minority. Likewise, the MBB represented Dundorfian-speaking Westerners who had lived in the nation. Despite composing very tiny amounts of the population, due to colonial history both the Vanukeans and Dundorfians control, which has made their small communities the subject of immense ire and condemnation to the Gao-Showan and. I fact, Tömörbaatar's People's Party explicitly campaigned on promises to end the lopsided and oppressive western control over much of the nation's industry and to investigate the corrupt and exclusionary hiring practices in their companies that often favor westerners over Gao-Showans, further perpetuating the cycle of economic and racial equality into the next generation. Though Vanukeans and Dundorfians have historically been politically significant and powerful in influence, this dynamic has been shifted on its' head following the unexpected victory of Panmuan nationalists in the latest elections.
The PC was ordered dissolved at a time it was vigorously opposing President Tömörbaatar's Executive Order 1066, which allowed the state to strip the assets and property of any citizen of Vanukean descent without compensation should it be investigated and discovered to have been historically attained through "injustice". In practice, this has meant that the seizure of any or all Vanukean-owned business is now sanctified under the law. As he is already under criminal charges, Purity Party Leader Eugeniusz Brzęczyszczykiewicz was detained and taken into police custody today. Meanwhile, MBB chair Sören Lowenstam has fled Mūngerica and was last reportedly seen in Midway. If he ever steps foot in the nation again without a pardon, he will be eligible for arrest.
The Vanukean-speaking community of Mūngerica have been particularly subject to vandalism and vigilante justice by ethnic Panmuans as of late. Similar reprisals for historical injustice are also targeting the Dundorfian community, although in fewer numbers. Surprisingly, the Jelbic-speaking minority has remained silent as the government has not yet acted against any uppity representatives. While reform on the national language revoked Jelbic's status as a co-official language of the Democratic Republic, there has not been as much of a nationalist push back or vigilante justice against Jelbic people, who have largely either been ignored or left alone by the hate that appears increasingly focused on those who share western or Vanukean/Dundorfian-looking features. Nonetheless, all minority groups are emigrating the nation in record numbers right now with worry for the future.
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Баатрынсэнтий Cимбун
BAATRYNSENTII (BATOSEITEI) SHINBUN
5600, May 15
Government's New Linguistic Policies Draw Controversy, Tokundian Alphabet Formally Adopted
The new ruling People's Party under newly inaugurated President Tsakhia Tömörbaatar has drawn widespread attention from all ethnic groups in Mūngerica for his administration's signing into law of the "National Language Act" (NLA). The NLA states that it is the government's intent to eventually replace Kunigo, the common language of Mūngerica, with Panmuan. As of January 5590, 92% of the population was estimated to be proficient in the Kunigo language, but only around 41% speak academically proficient Panmuan. Despite Mūngerica's population being a supermajority 82% ethnic Panmuan, centuries of Kunigo's national influence as an administrative lingua canrillica (IRL: lingua franca) have meant that even those of Panmuan descent are more likely in modern Mūngerica to speak the Kunigo language as a first language. Kunigo is also spoken by ethnic minorities like the Bianjie, Sekowan, Kunihito, Vanukean, Jelbic, and Dundorfian communities as a common tongue of communication within the nation.
Nonetheless, this is only a statement of intent. The NLA's actual administrative provisions call for Mūngerica to continue using both Panmuan and Kunigo as co-official national languages. To strengthen the nation's cultural identity the NLA also calls for the re-introduction of the traditional Panmuan script. To facilitate this transition, the government has introduced a new Tokundian-based alphabet to represent the Panmuan language as a replacement for the antiquated Selucian script, which the administration claims is unfit to represent the Panmuan language due to its' connection to the Vanukean colonial legacy. Tokundian and Traditional Panmuan script will be used together to represent Panmuan, alongside Kunigo as a co-official language. This is just the latest in a series of radical reforms that the People's Party claims will help Mūngerica finally achieve "a state of democratic Majority Rule".
Many Panmuans, who consider themselves part of the Gao-Showan World, are deeply disapproving of the efforts to linguistically sever Mūngerica from the interconnected Kunigo-speaking world. The nation's largest opposition party, the Union Party of Mūngerica, who promote a Pan-Gaoic cultural policy and include the Gaoic People's Revolutionary Party (GPRP) in their coalition, have called for the Administration to reverse their efforts to curb the use of Kunigo for Panmuan when the majority of the nation already accept Kunigo as the de facto supreme national language. The Union Party noted that the continued use of Kunigo is not just a cultural issue, but as one of Terra and Dovani's major languages and the lingua canrillica of the Gao-Showan World, Kunigo opens and facilitates economic opportunity for Panmuans to engage with the world economy. The Union Party has resolved to continue promotion of the Kunigo language in all affairs.
IN OTHER NEWS:
Purity Party, Mūngerica Civic Union both Ordered Dissolved by Supreme Court
Both the Purity Party (純粋黨, ᠠᠷᠢᠭᠤᠨ ᠨᠠᠮ/Ариун Нам, Partia Czystości - PC) and the Mūngerica Civic Union (懞好市民黨, ᠮᠠᠭᠤᠩᠭᠡᠷ ᠢᠷᠭᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠨᠠᠮ/Муунгөр Иргэний Нам, Mūngörreich Bürger Bund - MBB) have been ruled to be in violation of the new Law on Media Regulation and have been ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court.
The PC was a political party representing the interests of the small but historically and socially significant Vanukean minority. Likewise, the MBB represented Dundorfian-speaking Westerners who had lived in the nation. Despite composing very tiny amounts of the population, due to colonial history both the Vanukeans and Dundorfians control, which has made their small communities the subject of immense ire and condemnation to the Gao-Showan and. I fact, Tömörbaatar's People's Party explicitly campaigned on promises to end the lopsided and oppressive western control over much of the nation's industry and to investigate the corrupt and exclusionary hiring practices in their companies that often favor westerners over Gao-Showans, further perpetuating the cycle of economic and racial equality into the next generation. Though Vanukeans and Dundorfians have historically been politically significant and powerful in influence, this dynamic has been shifted on its' head following the unexpected victory of Panmuan nationalists in the latest elections.
The PC was ordered dissolved at a time it was vigorously opposing President Tömörbaatar's Executive Order 1066, which allowed the state to strip the assets and property of any citizen of Vanukean descent without compensation should it be investigated and discovered to have been historically attained through "injustice". In practice, this has meant that the seizure of any or all Vanukean-owned business is now sanctified under the law. As he is already under criminal charges, Purity Party Leader Eugeniusz Brzęczyszczykiewicz was detained and taken into police custody today. Meanwhile, MBB chair Sören Lowenstam has fled Mūngerica and was last reportedly seen in Midway. If he ever steps foot in the nation again without a pardon, he will be eligible for arrest.
The Vanukean-speaking community of Mūngerica have been particularly subject to vandalism and vigilante justice by ethnic Panmuans as of late. Similar reprisals for historical injustice are also targeting the Dundorfian community, although in fewer numbers. Surprisingly, the Jelbic-speaking minority has remained silent as the government has not yet acted against any uppity representatives. While reform on the national language revoked Jelbic's status as a co-official language of the Democratic Republic, there has not been as much of a nationalist push back or vigilante justice against Jelbic people, who have largely either been ignored or left alone by the hate that appears increasingly focused on those who share western or Vanukean/Dundorfian-looking features. Nonetheless, all minority groups are emigrating the nation in record numbers right now with worry for the future.