Corsican MEP battles for Europe to protect endangered languages

Just as the EU legislates to protect migrating birds and wildlife habitats, it should also protect its 120 or so endangered languages, argues François Alfonsi, a Corsican MEP who has prepared a parliamentary report that could name and shame European wrongdoers.

Languages would not disappear without a deliberate policy to marginalise them, argues Alfonsi, who has tabled a draft report on endangered languages that will be voted in June by the full Parliament in a plenary session.

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Draft Report on endangered European languages and linguistic diversity in the European Union http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fNONSGML%2bCOMPARL%2bPE-508.174%2b01%2bDOC%2bPDF%2bV0%2f%2fEN

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