Alphabet (Minsk 1926): A unique non-event? / Wexler, Paul -- The First International Catalan Language Congress, Barcelona, 13-18 October, 1906 / Castell, Joan Martí i -- Integration vs. particularism: The undeclared issue at the first "Dutch Congress" in 1849 / Willemyns, Roland -- The First Congress for Hebrew, or When is a congress not a congress? / Glinert, Lewis -- The First Congress of Hindi / Mehrotra, Raja Ram -- The first efforts to promote and develop Indonesian / Moeliono, Anton M. -- The emergence of the Korean script as a symbol of Korean identity / Haarmann, Harald -- The first philological conference for the establishment of the Macedonian alphabet and the Macedonian literary language: Its precedents and consequences / Friedman, Victor A. -- The First Congress for Malay / Omar, Asmah Haji -- The First Congress of Mayan Languages of Guatemala (1949) / Richards, Julia Becker -- Language purism and propaganda: The First Congress for Polish / Janicki, Karol / Jaworski, Adam -- The First Workshop on Quechua and Aymara Writing / Hornberger, Nancy H. -- The First Congress for Tok Pisin in 1973 / Wurm, S. A. -- The First Turkish Language Congress / Landau, Jacob M. -- The 1928 Ukrainian orthography / Hornjatkevyč, Andrij -- Senegalese languages in education: The First Congress of Wolof / Ka, Omar -- The Tshernovits Conference revisited: The First World Conference for Yiddish, 85 years later / Fishman, Joshua A. -- The "First Congress" phenomenon: Arriving at some general conclusions / Fishman, Joshua A. -- Topical Index -- Backmatter |