Language movement

Language movement or Language Movement may refer to:

Language campaigns

 * Plain Language Movement, a campaign to make writing easy to read, understand, and use
 * Language revitalization, attempts by interested parties to reverse the decline of a language that is endangered, moribund, or extinct
 * Linguistic purism, the practice of defining one variety of a language as being purer than other varieties
 * Language secessionism, an attitude supporting the separation of a language variety from other forms of the language in order to make it a distinct language

Language-specific social and political movements

 * Afrikaans language movement, originating in late 19th century South Africa
 * Andalusian language movement, a fringe movement promoting Andalusian as an independent language separate from Spanish, with attempts at standardizing Andalusian
 * Baloch independence movement, a movement that claims the Baloch people, an ethno-linguistic group mainly found in Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, are a distinct nation
 * Bengali language movement, a political movement in former East Pakistan (currently Bangladesh) advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as an official language of the then-Dominion of Pakistan
 * Bengali language movement in India, a campaign to preserve Bengali language and Bengalis culture in India
 * English-only movement, a political movement to use English as the only language in official government operations in the United States of America
 * Gaelic revival, the late-nineteenth-century national revival of interest in the Irish language and Irish Gaelic culture
 * Language Freedom Movement, an organization opposing the state-sponsored revival of the Irish language
 * Illyrian movement, a pan-South-Slavist cultural and political campaign during the first half of the 19th century
 * Kamtapur language movement, A linguistic campaign for Kamtapuri or Rajbanshi language in Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar districts of West Bengal; Jharkhand and Bihar, India.
 * Meitei language movement (also known as Manipuri language movement)
 * Meitei linguistic purism movement, an ongoing linguistic movement, aimed to attain linguistic purism in Meitei language
 * Scheduled language movement, a historical linguistic movement in Northeast India, aimed at the recognition of Meitei language as one of the official languages of the Indian Republic
 * Meitei classical language movement, an ongoing linguistic movement in Northeast India, aimed at the recognition of Meitei language as a "classical language"
 * Meitei associate official language movement, a semi active linguistic movement in Northeast India, aimed at the recognition of Meitei language as an "associate" official language of Assam
 * Nepal Bhasa movement, a movement for linguistic rights of Nepal Bhasa speakers in Nepal
 * Nepali language movement, a movement for linguistic rights of Nepali language speakers in India
 * Norwegian language conflict, an ongoing controversy within Norwegian culture and politics related to spoken and written Norwegian
 * Punjabi Language Movement, a linguistic movement in Punjab, Pakistan aimed at reviving Punjabi language, art, and culture
 * Rajasthani language movement, a campaign for greater recognition for the Rajasthani language
 * Reintegrationism, a linguistic and cultural movement in Galicia which views Galician and Portuguese as a single language
 * Scandinavian movement, literary and political movements that support various degrees of cooperation among the Scandinavian or Nordic countries
 * Urdu movement, a socio-political movement aimed at making Urdu the universal language and symbol of the cultural and political identity of the Muslim communities of the Indian subcontinent

Linguistic theory

 * Movement (sign language), the distinctive hand actions that form words in sign languages
 * Syntactic movement, the means by which some theories of syntax address discontinuities
 * Tough movement, theories about the movement of certain types of objects in formal syntax
 * Wh-movement, a mechanism of syntax that helps express a question.