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The Mercator Regional Dossiers
For an overview of the Dossiers, click here.
The Regional Dossiers focus on the educational system in European regions that have an autochthonous lesser-used language, and on how the lesser-used language is embedded in this system. The dossiers provide information on:
- educational statistics, such as number of bilingual schools, percentage of children learning the lesser-used language, language skills of teachers, etc;
- policies regarding education of the lesser-used language;
- the structure of the educational system in the area;
- speakers numbers of the lesser-used language;
- institutions supporting the lesser-used language.
The Regional dossiers are written according to a fixed structure, so that they can be used for comparative research. The dossier's contents may be reprinted for non-commercial use, provided that the extract is followed by a complete reference to Mercator Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning.
Map of the Regional Dossiers
Our most recent Dossiers:
We have compiled the following Dossiers:
Minority language | Country | Edition | Year of publication |
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Albanian | Italy | 2010 | |
Aragonese | Spain | 2017 | |
Asturian | Spain | 2nd | 2014 |
Basque | France | 2nd | 2007 |
Basque | Spain | 2nd | 2005 |
Breton | France | 2nd | 2003 |
Catalan | France | 2005 | |
Catalan | Spain | 2nd | 2013 |
Cornish | United Kingdom | 2001 | |
Corsican | France | 2nd | 2012 |
Croatian | Austria | 2001 | |
Danish | Germany | 2018 | |
Frisian | The Netherlands | 4th | 2007 |
Friulian | Italy | 2014 | |
Gaelic | Scotland | 2nd | 2017 |
Galician | Spain | 2nd | 2016 |
German | Alsace, France | 2nd | 2001 |
German | Belgium | 2004 | |
German | Denmark | 2015 | |
German | South Tyrol, Italy | 2nd | 2017 |
Hungarian | Slovakia | 2005 | |
Hungarian | Slovenia | 2012 | |
Irish | Northern Ireland | 2nd | 2004 |
Irish | Republic of Ireland | 2nd | 2016 |
Italian | Slovenia | 2012 | |
Kashubian | Poland | 2004 | |
Ladin | Italy | 2nd | 2016 |
Latgalian | Latvia | 2009 | |
Lithuanian | Poland | 2005 | |
Maltese | Malta | 2013 | |
Meänkieli and Sweden Finnish | Sweden | 2001 | |
Manx Gaelic | Isle of Man | 2016 | |
Nenets, Khanty and Selkup | Russian Federation | 2016 | |
НЕНЕЦКИЙ, ХАНТЫЙСКИЙ И СЕЛЬКУПСКИЙ ЯЗЫКИ | Российской Федерации | in Russian | 2016 |
North Frisian | Germany | 3rd | 2015 |
Occitan | France | 1996 | |
Polish | Lithuania | 2006 | |
Romani and Beash | Hungary | 2005 | |
Romansh | Switzerland | 2017 | |
Sami | Sweden | 2001 | |
Scots | Scotland | 2nd | 2017 |
Serbian | Hungary | 2014 | |
Slovak | Hungary | 2005 | |
Slovene | Italy | 2nd | 2004 |
Slovene | Austria | 2nd | 2005 |
Sorbian | Germany | 2nd | 2016 |
Swedish | Finland | 2nd | 2013 |
Turkish | Greece | 2003 | |
Ukrainian and Ruthenian | Poland | 2006 | |
Võro | Estonia | 2007 | |
Welsh | United Kingdom | 2nd | 2014 |
Terms of usage
You are free to download and print the dossiers for personal use. Organisations/ institutions that would like to print the dossiers by a local publisher in their country, may request a publisher's file (containing crop marks etc.). Publisher's files are available for some of the dossiers, though not all.
We would appreciate it if you could let us know if you print a dossier in large numbers for distribution at conferences, events etc.
Editors of the Regional Dossiers
Ramziè Krol-Hage and Marlous Visser are responsible for the editing of the Mercator Research Centre Regional dossiers series. You can contact them for any questions or suggestions.