| European Charter For Regional Or Minority Languages |
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Information AboutEuropean Charter For Regional Or Minority Languages |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT EUROPEAN CHARTER FOR REGIONAL OR MINORITY LANGUAGES | |
| linguistic rights | |
| council of europe | |
| charter for regional or minority language | |
| languages of europe | |
| language policy of the european union | |
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Languages which are official within regions or provinces or federal units within a State (for example Catalan in Spain ) are not classified as official languages of the State and may therefore benefit from the Charter. On the other hand, the Republic Of Ireland has not been able to sign the Charter on behalf of the Irish Language (although a minority language) as it is defined as the first official language of the state. The United Kingdom has, though, ratified the Charter in respect of (among other languages) Irish in Northern Ireland . France , although a signatory, has been constitutionally blocked from ratifying the Charter in respect of the Languages Of France . The charter provides a large number of different actions state parties can take to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages. There are two levels of protection—all signatories must apply the lower level of protection to qualifying languages; signatories may further declare that a qualifying language or languages will benefit from the higher level of protection which lists a range of actions from which states must agree to undertake at least 35. SEE ALSO
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