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Week 5th to 11th February 2010
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Imaxe The Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia and the Balearic Islands ask that the Europe 2020 strategy should promote multilingualism

The Governments of the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia and the Balearic Islands, met in Paris on occasion of the Expolangues 2010 fair, agreed to jointly ask that the Europe 2020 strategy should promote multilingualism. Therefore, they will send a document to the European Commission in which they highlight "the opportunities" that the recognition of the language diversity, considered "inevitable", opens.
AGENDA

February 18
Curso de blogs e iniciación a ferramentas multimedia para o traballo en normalización lingüística. Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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February 21
International Mother Language Day

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February 22
Xornadas de análise da Carta Europea das Linguas Rexionais ou Minoritarias. Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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March 02
Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española. Valparaíso, Chile

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HIGHLIGHTS

IAITH: y ganolfan cynllunio iaith

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GALICIA

»  The Galician Nationalist Party wants Galician to be included in the Paradores' website

»  Galician does not appear in information signs in new Spanish trains

»  Registration is open for exams to obtain the certificate of the Galician language

»  The We Want Galician platform promotes a popular initiative to ensure the citizens' language rights

»  The book on 55 lies on the Galician language is presented

SPAIN

ASTURIAS

»  The University of Oviedo presents an automatic translator Spanish-Asturian-Spanish

»  The new Asturian Terminology Centre has been created

CATALONIA

»  The Vice-President of the Catalan Government presents the Law of the Aranese Language in the Parliament

»  New lecturers will be required to know Catalan in Catalonia

»  Publishers in the Catalan language support the law of the cinema to solve the "language imbalance"

»  The Catalan Government defends their linguistic fine policy before the department of Justice

BASQUE COUNTRY

»  The regional network of technicians of Álava created to promote Basque will be ready this month

»  San Sebastián will host a meeting of the European Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity

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»  The number of pupils studying Arabic in Seville is doubled in seven years

»  The Government of Aragon will create a technical office of Language Policy

»  Castile-La Mancha approves the Multilingualism Plan, with an investment of 48 million €

»  The Extremaduran association Além Guadiana proposes measures to value Portuguese language and culture

»  The first digital newspaper in Arabic in Spain is published

»  The Minister of Education will guarantee the presence of the co-official languages in the schools

WORLD

»  Panama carries out actions in favour of indigenous languages

»  The French Government thinks that regional languages are already recognised in the French Constitution

»  Google will launch a real-time translator to use mobile phones in another language

»  The Puerto Rican Government wants to implement bilingualism in schools

»  The first official edition in Aymara of the Peruvian Constitution of 1993 is presented

»  The Spanish language and culture is experiencing a boom in the Czech Republic

»  The French defend their language in the United Nations

»  Expolangues 2010 closes the fair in Paris with a good turnout of visitors to the Galician stand of Language Policy

»  Ukrainian teachers will be able to use other languages apart from Ukrainian in their work places

»  Everything is settled for Wales to assume the competences in linguistics

»  Dies in India the last Bo language speaker

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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