Nationalism

Like the case of China's Inner Mongolia which uses different alphabets from (Outer) Mongolia - AND not to forget the Soviet demongolization efforts on ethnic Mongol in Russia - to divide a nation of people, the manipulation of language and vocabulary is always a part of the political agenda of larger players.

Here is an excerpt from Chapter 3 "The Origins of National Consciousness" by Benedict Anderson (1983) in his book Imagined Communities:

"The fate of the Turkic-speaking peoples in the zones incorporated into today's Turkey, lran, Iraq, and the USSR is especially exemplary. A family of spoken languages, once everywhere assemblable, thus comprehensible, within an Arabic orthography, has lost that unity as a result of conscious manipulations. To heighten Turkish-Turkey's national consciousness at the expense of any wider Islamic identification, Ataturk imposed compulsory romanization. The Soviet authorities followed suit, first with an anti-Islamic, anti-Persian compulsory romanization, then, in Stalin's 1930s, with a Russifying compulsory Cyrillicization."

Regarding the issue of minority nationalism/diaspora nationalism, this reminded me of a lecture with a subtopic "Mongolia - A Nation Divided" delivered by Prof. Uradyn Bulag (a Chinese citizen of Mongol ethnicity). There was struggle to preserve Mongolian heritage in face of Han Chinese supremacy in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region controlled by China.