And they work for the preservation of minority languages in Sweden, such as Sami and Romani.
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Earlier this month, a European minority languages organisation raised concerns about making a non Gaelic-speaking appointment.
This had referred to the rights of speakers of all minority languages including sign languages.
The minister said he would bring forward a minority languages strategy to cover both Ulster-Scots and Irish.
Last year, a European minority languages organisation raised concerns about the authority making a non Gaelic-speaking appointment.
The production of the newspaper in local languages is helping to promote the conservation and propagation of minority languages.
With an acute shortage of people who can teach in minority languages, illiteracy is much higher than the national average.
Mr Vollebaek agrees that the bill does not in itself contravene international law or Slovakia's earlier commitments to protect minority languages.
Under Article 22 of the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, there is a provision for respect of minority languages used in Europe.
The EU funds projects to promote regional minority languages, such as the European minority language song contest , and participation at the UN forum on minorities.
The importance of gathering information on such minority languages was emphasised by Professor Peter Ladefoged, a member of the endangered languages committee of the Linguistic Society of America.
As Catherine Trautmann explained last year, when she was culture minister, it was in France's interest to ratify the Council of Europe's charter that protects regional and minority languages.
Mr Myant has said that the suggestion that qualifications in Welsh or in ethnic minority languages were in some way second rate would be "deeply insulting" both to the speakers of the languages and to the students.
The conference also urged the executive to support the Liberal Democrat policy to add a penny onto the basic rate of income tax, provide teaching facilities in Gaelic and other minority languages where there is demand, and ensure that class sizes are reduced across the whole age range of pupils.
He suggested that applicants to the police should be required to have certain languages, spoken in minority communities, or to have done voluntary work, rates of which are thought to be high in ethnic minority groups.
Most residents of the province belong to the Pamiri ethnicity, which follows the minority Ismaili sect of Islam and speaks languages distinct from Tajik.
In addition, the newspaper has opened up opportunities for women to break into formerly male-dominated socioeconomic spaces and has created opportunities for other minority groups to produce their own papers in their own (mother-tongue) languages.
In the 2011 campaign, Conservatives also promised targeted tax cuts for families that appealed to suburban immigrants, recruited more minority candidates than any other party and ran campaign ads in Mandarin, Punjabi, Cantonese and other languages.
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