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"Analyse the relationship between language, literacy and the growth of nationalism." The idea of nationalism as a movement is considered to be a fairly modern phenomenon, in that it is not something that is inherent within us but something which has been created over time.1 When one considers the idea of nationality, the issue of language almost immediately comes to mind. Surely a population with a common language should be considered a nation, alongside other cultural factors as well of course. However, the subject of language quickly becomes much more complex than this. When considering it, one must remember to distinguish between a language and a dialect, for example, or the literary version and the spoken version of a language.2 All of this makes the links between language and the concept of nationalism seem much more vague than first assumed. The differentiation between the literary and the spoken languages,...

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