Norway protects Lule Sami and South Sami

Norway notified the Council of Europe that it will apply Part III of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages to strengthen the protection and promotion of the Lule Sami language and the South Sami language.

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Students who feel multi-lingual perform better

Young people who consider themselves multilingual tend to perform better across a wide range of subjects at school, regardless of whether they are fluent in another language, shows new research from Cambridge.

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Catalan call for defense of digital linguistic rights

The president of Plataforma per la Llengua, Òscar Escuder, sent a letter to Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President and Head of the EU working group 'A Europe fit for the digital age', denouncing that the Spanish state ignores the European Parliament's resolution to promote linguistic diversity on the Internet.

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Minority report presented in Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein presented a new minority report in the State Parliament in Kiel. It provides information about the minorities and their work in the German-Danish border region as well as about the ethnic groups of the Frisians and the German Sinti and Roma living in Schleswig-Holstein.

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Call for Papers:

JEMIE journal

The Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE) welcomes research articles, commentaries, and book reviews from practitioners, academics, and students on all aspects of ethnopolitics and minority issues. Deadline: 15 January 2022.

Call for Papers

Welsh model for (Māori) language revitalisation

The University of Waikato (NZ) and Cardiff University (UK) have launched a strategic partnership. This must bring expertise from Cardiff into Waikato's Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, as they consider Welsh a model for language revitalisation.

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Digital Buddy Box for Afghan refugee children

The free digital Buddy Box is designed for Afghan refugee children and can easily be used to learn English in school. Afghan languages Dari and Pashto are translated into English by using text, pictures and audio.

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CUSC presents research on Catalan in social media

CUSC researchers Avel·lí Flors-Mas and Marina Massaguer present the report 'Català, youtubers i instagramers.. [Catalan, youtubers and instagrammers: a starting point to promote the use of the language] on Dec 3rd.

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Webinar on family

language policies

On 8th December at 4pm CET, all are welcome at the webinar on family language policies among parents raising multilingual children in Quebec. Mercator researcher Dr Ruth Kircher is one of the speakers.

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Elin Haf Gruffydd-Jones new ELEN President

At the annual General Assembly of ELEN (European Language Equality Network), professor Elin Haf Gruffydd-Jones of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David was unanimously elected to be the new President.

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Call for Papers online ICLASP 2022 (Hong Kong)

The 17th International Conference for Language and Social Psychology (ICLASP 17; 22-25 June, 2022) welcomes papers that specialize in the application and development of theories of language perceptions, attributions, and language use.

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Minority Language Education in the Spotlight

"It is key to increase the visibility of minority languages with little or no place in the education system [...]". Mercator researchers Ydwine Scarse and Ruth Kircher wrote an interesting blog post about Mercator's Wiki on Minority Language Learning.

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