États du yiddish : les différents types de reconnaissance, gouvernementale ou non gouvernementale

• Main Author: Joshua A. Fishman
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: L’Harmattan 2012-06-01
• Series: Droit et Cultures
• Subjects: Diaspora; National Language; Official Language; Yiddish
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/2861

Treatments of language may be either positive, negative or neutral,whetherunder governmental or under non-governmental auspices. Positive governmental treatments («rewards») of language fall into a continuous rather than merely into a discontinuous or dichotomous distribution. In this paper, we will draw various examples from the case of Yiddish in order to examine three distinct stages within the continuum of governmental designations that commonly compete or co-exist alongside one another. After an overview of the official and national status of this millenary Diaspora language, we will examine the various governmental attitudes from tolerance to repression. We will then conclude that despite the odds and ends of Yiddish and although its speakers were decimated, their language will never die.