![]() In PL's textbooks, Lao was regarded as the heritage of their ancestors who also included the heroes of the minorities, and love for the Lao was regarded as the way to reach love for the nation. On the other hand, it was the moral education that supported this institutional superiority of Lao in ideology. So, until the end of 1960's, Lao became the only medium of instruction for all levels of the PL schools and, served as the national language in a way. ![]() However, although among the minority languages, only the Hmong language was given to literation, PL did not actually intend to promote the minority languages to the same level as Lao. Since around 1964, they began to carry out the policy of promoting Lao among their people and developing the languages of the minority people. To mobilize the people to their revolutionary movement, PL conducted a vigorous literacy campaign in their liberated zone. ![]() In other words, this paper mainly analyzes the PL's policy on education and propaganda. At the same time, it also examines the ideology they created to make Lao the national language, regardless of the fact that the ethnic Lao, who used it were not the majority of the population. ![]() ![]() This paper intends to show how the Lao revolutionary forces, Pathet Lao (PL) used the Lao language (Lao) in their process of building up the Nation, in which the ethnic Lao had played a leading role. ![]()
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