Language movements - Topics

How do diaspora communities keep a language movement alive from abroad? What is International Mother Language Day actually for? What do pop songs and TV shows do for a language that classes cannot? Why did Welsh activists risk jail over bilingual road signs? How did a handful of parents start the language nest movement? What separates a real language movement from a nostalgia club? Can a hashtag campaign save a language? Who leads a language movement once the last fluent speakers are gone? Why did Welsh stop declining after centuries of pressure? What turned the Bengali language movement into a fight for a country? Why do language rights protests escalate so fast? How do language activists get a court to take their case seriously? Why did Esperanto never become the world's second language? Why do students riot over which language a university teaches in? Does refusing to speak the majority language work as a protest? What actually changes the day a country declares an official language? Can you reform a language with no government behind you?