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The following is the winning article in the 'Alternative Perspectives' competition for non-law students, kindly sponsored by Arthur Cox. France is a country with a rich and diverse linguistic landscape. It is the most linguistically varied country in Western Europe with 51% of the population speaking another language in addition to their mother tongue, yet, anyContinue reading →
Sep 9, 2021 · France is notorious for its single-language policy, which ranks French as the only official, national language in the country—despite the country being home to more than 20 different regional languages, like Occitan, Alsatian, and Basque. While these languages have historically been quite robust, France’s policies regarding language use and education have largely ignored— and at times ...
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For the French state, centralisation is a fundamental part of its identity, and it includes the role of the French language. French is a Romance language derived from Latin. In the Middle Ages, Latin evolved into two language groups spoken in the territory of present-day France: the langues d'oc (Occitan languages) spoken in the south and the langu...
Today a government department, the General Delegation for the French language and the languages of France (DGLFLF), is in charge of all the languages spoken in France. The DGLFLF divides all languages other than French into three categories: regional languages spoken in mainland France, non-territorial languages such as Yiddish, Romani or sign lang...
In May, following the enactment of the 21 May Law, many demonstrations took place throughout France to condemn the censorship of immersive teaching, which largely depends on financial support from the State. Petitionshave been launched citing that Article 2 of the constitution was created and presented as a method of protecting the French language ...
Nov 27, 2020 · Others with regional accents sound like “they should be reading the weather”. Now the French have not only come up with a word for this kind of prejudice - glottophobie - but a new law banning ...
France’s regional linguistic minorities do not exist in French law, socio-logically speaking, they fall into the category of national minorities as envisaged by Kymlicka. However, owing to a history of assimilation, by no means can they be said to enjoy today their own societal cultures, in
Apr 28, 2021 · Molac’s Law and Regional Languages: A Case Study for Europe. On 8 April 2021, the French National Assembly approved the ‘Molac’ Law: an opposition bill to protect and promote regional languages. With 51% of the French population speaking a different language at home than French, the lack of regional language protection until now may be ...
May 26, 2021 · France's highest constitutional authority “ruled that the bill was out of line with article two of the French constitution, which stipulates that the language of the French republic is French ...
