linguistic imbalance

Before the emergence of democracy in South Africa, the apartheid regime had brought linguistic imbalance.

2011 Pierre Anctil, "Reasonable Accommodation in the Canadian Legal Context: A Mechanism for Managing Diversity or a Source of Tension?" in H. Adelman and P. Anctil, eds., Religion, Culture, and the State: Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Report, University of Toronto Press, 2011. Being vulnerable as an official language minority within the Canadian federation, the Québec francophones thus reaffirmed their commitment to the values of pluralism and diversity while also taking measures to prevent the worsening, through the anglicization of immigrants, of the existing historical linguistic imbalance within Canada.

2012 J. McDonagh, et al, "Sustainability and Getting the Balance Right in Rural Ireland," in T. Varley et al, eds., A Living Countryside?: The Politics of Sustainable Development in Rural Ireland, Business and Economics, 2012. Linguistic imbalance, reflecting and [sic] the growing dominance of English and the continuing decline of Irish, are addressed in Mac Donnacha and Ó Giollagáin's paper where the nature of this decline, its extent and attempts at countering it are all explored.

2014 M. Bielenia-Grajewska, "Linguicism," in L.H. Cousins, ed., Encyclopedia of Human Services and Diversity, Sage Publications, 2014. Another type is informational linguicism, which is connected with limited access to information caused by linguistic imbalance in a given setting.

The aims of many feminist LP [language planning] efforts are to expose the inequalities in the linguistic portrayal of the sexes which reflect and contribute to the unequal positions of women and men in society and to take action to rectify this linguistic imbalance.

This linguistic imbalance denies the woman certain privileges, a bias phenomenon that is recurrent in language.