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PROMOTING AND SAFEGUARDING REGIONAL AND MINORITY LANGUAGES
AND CULTURES
Respect for linguistic and cultural diversity is one of the
cornerstones of the European Union, now enshrined in Article 22 of the
European Charter of Fundamental Rights, which states "The Union respects
cultural, religious and linguistic diversity." On the initiative of the
European Parliament, which has adopted a series of resolutions on this
subject, the European Union has taken action to safeguard and promote the
regional and minority languages of Europe. This action has taken two forms:
Financial support for the European Bureau for Lesser Used
Languages and the Mercator information network.
Up to the year 2000, project funding for practical
initiatives aimed at protecting and promoting regional and minority
languages.
Ex-post evaluation of activities in the field of regional and
minority Languages 1998-2002 : Final Report - Annexes
The languages intended to benefit from these activities are
indigenous languages traditionally spoken by part of the population of
Member States of the European Union, or EEA countries. This definition does
not include the languages of immigrant communities, artificially created
languages or dialects of an official language of the state in question.
For information on projects financed under the 2000 call for
proposals click here.
For further information on the regional and minority
languages of the European Union, click here.
More information concerning lesser used languages in Europe
is available from the commented collection of websites compiled by the
European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe. click here.
The report "Support for minority languages in Europe", commissioned by the Language Policy Unit of the Directorate
General for Education and Culture, is now available in its original English
version. This study provides a thoroughgoing analysis of the issues
surrounding the protection and promotion of regional and minority languages
in the EU context.
Executive summary (pdf format)
European Parliament - Report with recommendations to the
Commission on European regional and lesser-used languages – the languages of
minorities in the EU – in the context of enlargement and cultural diversity
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