MINELRES: New report on application of the Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Spain
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Sat Dec 13 19:13:40 2008
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New report on application of the Charter for Regional or Minority
Languages in Spain
The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers has just made public the
second report on the situation of minority languages in Spain. This
report has been drawn up by a committee of independent experts which
monitors the application of the European Charter for Regional or
Minority Languages.
On the basis of the report, the Committee of Ministers calls on Spain to
improve the use of regional or minority languages amongst judicial staff
and in the State administration offices. Further efforts are needed to
protect Asturian, and specific legislation should be adopted for the
Aragonese and Catalan languages in Aragon. The Spanish authorities are
also encouraged to clarify the status of Galician in Castile and Leon,
Portuguese in the town of Olivenza, Berber in the Autonomous City of
Melilla and Arabic in the Autonomous City of Ceuta, and take appropriate
steps to protect these languages in co-operation with the speakers.
Text of the report and recommendations:
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/minlang/Report/EvaluationReports/SpainECRML2_
en.pdf
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/minlang/Report/EvaluationReports/SpainECRML2_
es.pdf
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Council of Europe
Secretariat of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
DG IV - Education, Culture and Heritage, Youth and Sport
F - 67075 STRASBOURG Cedex
http://www.coe.int/minlang
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