Aragonese languages law: still pending

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Aragonese languages law: still pending
Marcel·lí
Iglesias (PSOE party), President of the Autonomous Community of Aragon,
in Spain, has promised to present and pass the Aragonese languages law
during the year 2008 to regulate the use and promotion of Catalan and
Aragonese in Aragon. It is not the first time that Mr. Iglesias, who is
a Catalan speaker himself, states this old promise in the media, and it
has never been kept.
Acknowledgement and promotion under
a law is quite important for the Catalan and Aragonese languages in
Aragon, as the current Statute of Autonomy of Aragon does not mention
which are the languages of Aragon (i.e., Aragonese, Catalan and
Castilian). The minority languages speakers’ linguistic rights in this
Autonomous Community of Spain are not being respected at the moment, as
they are legally unprotected.
Related news:
AragonDigital.es (in Castilian/Spanish)
Vilaweb (in Catalan)
For more information:
Wikipedia: Aragonese language (in English)
Statute of Autonomy of Aragon - Organic Law 8/1982 of 10th August (in Castilian/Spanish)[url=http://www.aragob.es/pre/cido/estatut1.htm]
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