National, Regional and Minority Languages in Europe: Contributions to the Annual Conference 2009 of EFNIL in DublinPeter Lang, 2011 - 191 pages The European linguistic diversity goes far beyond the official national languages of the present 27 member states of the European Union. In every country several languages of smaller or larger groups of speakers are used besides the official language or the languages of the majority population. These languages are autochthonous languages that have been used for a long time in the individual country as well as allochthonous languages of different groups of migrants and their descendants. The sometimes complicated relations between national, regional and minority languages within various countries are discussed in this volume. Besides reports on several countries, the general sociolinguistic and legal conditions are dealt with in overview contributions. In addition, the Dublin Declaration on the relationship between official languages and regional and minority languages in Europe is presented in 24 languages. |
Contents
a Opening | 11 |
Pádraig Ó Riagáin | 13 |
Robert Dunbar | 35 |
Peter Hilpold | 53 |
Nicoletta Maraschio Cecilia Robustelli | 73 |
Lena Ekberg | 87 |
Ireland | 107 |
Slavomír Ondrejovič | 123 |
d The Dublin Declaration on the relationship between official languages | 137 |
Contacts | 187 |
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agus Amtssprachen Armenian Band Bartha Belorussian bilingual Boyash British-Irish Council Bulgarian Bulgarian language Catalan Catalonia census century communities comuni comunità conference Constitution Council countries cultural Deutsch dialect diglossia domains EFNIL English ethnic minorities EuGH Europe European Charter European Union Foras na Gaeilge français French friulano Gaeilge Gaelic Gaeltacht German guage Hungarian Hungary institutions Ireland Irish language Irish-speakers italiana Karaites ladino language policy language rights language shift langues de France langues régionales Legge Regionale legislation linguistic diversity linguistic minorities Lithuania Meänkieli Minderheiten minoranze linguistiche minoritaires minority lan minority languages mother tongue Multilingual national languages national minorities organisations Polish Polish language political population programme promote provincia regional and minority regional or minority rights regime Roma Romani Romanian Russian sardo schools Serbian social Spanish speak speakers spoken Sprache Sprachen språk standard languages status Strubell Tatars teanga territory tion tutela delle minoranze valodas valorizzazione varietà Vilnius Welsh Yiddish език