Linguistic Diversity: Institutional Mechanisms, Language Policy, and Inclusive Economic Development

Abstract

Inclusive economy is closely related to the digital transformation of society and has a linguistic dimension that requires the implementation of specific language policy ensured by state institutions and public organizations. The paper considers digitalization processes as having potential for preserving and maintaining small-numbered languages and defines the set of targets to provide their maintenance and preservation such as machine translation that can support the urgent task of documenting the world’s minority languages; funding corpus-building projects that could be used for language development and documentation purposes, developing Internet resources that would help to create a learning environment and unite speakers of minority language from different locations. The results obtained would be useful when estimating long-term inclusive economic development as well as planning language policies, education policies aimed at preserving cultural and language diversity as an indispensable tool for the implementation of sustainable economic growth.