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Week 20th to 26th February 2009
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Imaxe Linguamón celebrates Mother Language Day with a new web page featuring 'The Triplets'

Linguamón – House of Languages has marked International Mother Language Day (21 February) by unveiling the web page Les Tres Bessones al Bosc de les Paraules ['The Triplets in the Forest of Words'], a space in which The Triplets (Les Tres Bessones in Catalan, three fictional characters created by the Catalan children's literature illustrator Roser Capdevila) reflect upon how important and necessary it is to preserve all the world's tongues.

AGENDA

February 28
I Simposio Galego "Linguas, Culturas e Escola". Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

March 01
Our words, our worlds. Seville, Spain

Lingua Galega

March 02
Fonhispania 2009. Madrid, Spain

March 04
Foro da Lingua. Ourense, Spain

Lingua Galega

HIGHLIGHTS

Vigoterm

Asociación de Escritores en Lingua Galega

Centro Internazionale sul Plurilinguismo

Portalingua

IULMA

 
GALICIA

»  The Council of Marín has developed new actions for the linguistic dynamisation

»  Galicia is first in Spain and Europe’s number of bilingual sections in teaching centres

»  A web including news on Galician revitalization teams is created

»  A documentary depicts the work carried out on Galician language in Burela City Council

»  Bilingual Galicia hands over 100,000 signatures in favour of language freedom

»  The President of the Galician Royal Academy wishes to promote Galician outside schools

»  Galician is no longer an endangered language, according to UNESCO

»  The regulation of the use of Galician language comes into effect in Cuntis City Council

SPAIN

ASTURIAS

»  The Academy of the Asturian Language and other organizations demand that Asturian be an official language

»  A jurists pro-Asturian association submits to the Council of Europe a new report on Asturian language

CATALONIA

»  A study shows that the El Prat Airport discriminates against Catalan

»  The General Secretariat of Linguistic Policy in Catalonia works to get the Catalan to become used again in Swiss Air

»  Linguamón issues the first release of Living Maps project

»  The High Court of Justice of Catalonia rejects the request of a mother asking for preschool education in Spanish

VALENCIA

»  The Valencian Ministry of Education will include Mandarin Chinese as an optional subject in academic year 2010-2011

»  The Valencian Academy of the Language commits itself to work to make Valencian in churches normal

NAVARRE

»  The degree of compliance of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages has been positively valued

»  Five schools in Navarre will implement the new multilingual programme in September, three in Basque language

BASQUE COUNTRY

»  Nearly 50.000 Euros will be used to get the judges to learn Basque

»  The Basque Government ends the validation system of Basque language titles and certificates within the European Framework

»  The number of problems registered in the Basque service for guaranteeing language rights increases in 25%

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»  An educational CD to promote Basque is handed out in all schools in the Basque Country, Navarre and the French Basque Country

»  Hotmail is already available in Catalan

»  The Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia and the Balearic Islands set up an award to promote Spanish language diversity

WORLD

»  Argentinean teachers taught languages to the staff that will see to people during the South African World Cup

»  An experimental project to teach languages in the Italian region of Piedmont has been approved

»  The Bearn Region will demonstrate on April 4 to demand more resources for Occitan

»  The Galician Language Board explains in Brussels the education model of Galician language kindergartens

»  TRT stops broadcast as Ahmed Turk speaks in Kurdish

»  Poland ratifies the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

»  Demand for teaching in native languages in Panama

»  Languages make a difference, stresses senior UN official on International Mother Language Day

»  Call for teaching in all African languages

»  EU challenges native English speakers to learn more foreign languages to serve as translators and interpreters in Brussels

RESOURCES
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Xunta de Galicia

General Secretariat of Language Policy. Galician Government.
http://www.xunta.es/linguagalega
Telephone: (0034) 981 54 54 57 | 8 Pastoriza St. Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

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