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Numerous languages were spoken in ancient Italy. These included Etruscan and the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages, consisting of Latino-Faliscan and Osco-Umbrian languages. Furthermore, Celtic languages were spoken in Cisalpine Gaul and ancient Greek was spoken in Magna Graecia.
As a way to distance itself from the Italianization policies promoted because of nationalism, Italy recognized twelve languages as the Country's "historical linguistic minorities", [97] which are promoted alongside Italian in their respective territories.
Feb 19, 2021 · This study emphasises UNESCO’s commitment to the promotion and protection of multilingualism, and presents the country-specific situation, where twelve ‘historical linguistic minorities’ are recognised at the normative level. International Mother language Day is globally celebrated on February 21st.
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There is no scholarly consensus on what a "minority language" is, because various different standards have been applied in order to classify languages as "minority language" or not.According to Owens (2013), attempts to define minority languages generally fall into several categories: 1. Demographic definitions: 'Minority languages are those whose ...
Europe
Definitions In most European countries, the minority languages are defined by legislation or constitutional documents and afforded some form of official support. In 1992, the Council of Europe adopted the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages in Europe. For the purposes of the Charter, it stipulated the following definitions:: 1–2 Attitudes towards the Charter The signatories that have not yet ratified it as of 20...
Canada
In Canada the term "minority language" is used in the Constitution of Canada, in the heading above section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees educational rights to official language minority communities. In Canada, the term "minority language" is generally understood to mean whichever of the official languages is less spoken in a particular province or territory (i.e., English in Québec, French elsewhere).[citation needed]
Minority languages may be marginalised within nations for a number of reasons. These include having a relatively small number of speakers, a decline in the number of speakers, and popular belief that these speakers are uncultured, or primitive, or the minority language is a dialect of the dominant language. Support for minority languages is sometim...
These are languages that have the status of a national language and are spoken by the majority population in at least one country, but lack recognition in other countries, even where there is a significant minority linguistic community: 1. Albanian – recognized minority language in many countries, including Romania, but not recognized as a minority...
Linguistic communities that form no majority of population in any country, but whose language has the status of an official language in at least one country: 1. Tamil: 78 million speakers; official status in India, Sri Lanka, and Singapore 2. Marathi: 83 million speakers; official status in India 3. Berber: 45 million speakers; official status in M...
Arsenault-Cameron v. Prince Edward Island: a 2000 Supreme Court of Canada decision which determined that, based on Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, in the specific circums...A treasure language is one of the thousands of small languages still spoken in the world today. The term was proposed by the Rama people of Nicaragua as an alternative to heritage language, indigenous language, and "ethnic language", names that are considered pejorative in the local context.The term is now also used in the context of public storyte...
Owens, Jonathan (2013). Arabic as a Minority Language. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 468. ISBN 9783110805451. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
Nov 25, 2017 · More specifically in Italy, recognition of linguistic pluralism was a positive political step away from classificatory systems intimately associated with the aesthetics of language celebrated under fascism.
Jul 1, 2011 · According to Pellegrini's (1977) map, the dialects of Italy may be divided into two broad categories: Italo-Romance dialects and the so-called minority languages ("historical linguistic...
Jan 1, 2013 · Biagio Aulino. References (18) Figures (3) Abstract and Figures. This paper examines the linguistic power and influence of the Latin language that continued well after the fall of the Roman...
