In oersjoch fan Mercators aktiviteiten

With news about, among other things, Irish as an official language in Northern Ireland, an appeal filed against the court decision on the Minority SafePack Initiative, the percentage of people able to speak Welsh is the lowest ever, an Occitan first name was rejected because of an acute accent, there are concerns in Brittany about Breton teaching, and much more!

This Regional Dossier is the third and fully updated edition of the dossier 'The Basque language in education in France'. This Regional Dossier was updated in 2023 by Beñat Lascano, PhD. He is a teacher of Basque in secondary education in Iparralde and holds a doctorate in Basque studies. The first edition of this Regional Dossier was written by Mark Stuijt in 1998, and the second edition by Daniel Sanchez in 2007.

This project focuses on new speakers of West Frisian in the province of Fryslân, in the north of the Netherlands. The project outputs include research-informed teaching materials for Afûk educators, a research report for the Province of Fryslân, and a research-informed language promotion campaign.

Duration: 11/06/2020 - present

Funding: Province of Fryslân

The LANGSCAPE & ENROPE Online Colloquium will be a space for presenting and discussing on-going research and teaching projects related to plurilingualism and education.

With news about, among other things, the court ruling that the European Commission was right to refuse to take the action requested for 'Minority SafePack', Full digital language equality in multilingual Europe, Sami and Norwegian text on all TINE's milk cartons, oldest Basque script dating back to the 1st century, call for academic articles in standard Occitan and much more!

Dizze (online) lêzing makket diel út fan it Joint Seminar on Cross-Germanic Linguistics/ Séminaire Tournant de Linguistique Intergermanique.

Talk by Dr Ruth Kircher (Mercator/ Fryske Akademy) - 'New speakers' attitudes towards West Frisian: Implications for language planning' (closed session)

Mercator's Meartaligens Lêzing 2022 sil dit jier jûn wurde troch Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck, University of London).

Mercator researcher Ruth Kircher will talk (online) about 'Language attitudes and ideologies amongst new speakers of West Frisian' (closed session).

With news about, among other things, a Language plan that paves way for Scots to flourish in Shetland, a Report on minority languages in Switzerland, UNPO critical of French minority language policy, Revirada: online Occitan automatic translator, the search for a Junior Researcher Cat-Human Interaction, two new peer-reviewed journals on sociolinguistics, and much more!