Jezična politika i manjinska jezična prava: Konstruktivna analiza primjene manjinskih jezika u kosovskoj akademskoj zajednici

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Linguistic rights protect the individual and collective right of minority groups to choose a language, which includes the right to use their mother tongue in legal, administrative and judicial acts, the right to education in their own language, and the right to broadcast in their own language. Any restrictions on language rights run counter to international obligations that protect the individual and collective identity and culture of minority groups, and participation in public life. Although Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ensures that linguistic minorities can use their own languages in their community, problems often exist at the national level. In this context, this article addresses the issues of (in) equality of the use of minority languages in the academic community of Kosovo and the role of its institutions in promoting inequality. We present the current situation in Kosovo’s academic space and, based on selected statistics, identify opportunities for more successful progress in the educational process of minority groups. In addition to the data obtained by surveying members of linguistic minorities in the Kosovo academic community, in the continuation of the analysis we try to find an answer to the question of where the omissions were made, calling for respect for linguistic diversity as a fundamental value of the European Union. Higher education in the mother tongue is the greatest achievement of minorities in Kosovo. Therefore, Kosovo universities where classes are taught in minority languages should play an avant-garde role in promoting the rights of the Bosniak as well as the Turkish community, as they educate future educators and the bearers of the economic and cultural life of these communities. In other words, since there are not national councils under the Constitution of Kosovo, higher education institutions should take on the role of coordinating institutions in resolving language restrictions and problems of minority groups, thus preventing the possibility of ethnocentrism and linguistic discrimination (linguistism) and thus loss of national identity.