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POSSIBILITIES FOR THE REVITALISATION OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: BETWEEN THE RESPONSIBILITY OF COUNTRIES AND THE ACTION TAKEN BY LANGUAGE MINORITIES

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Dolowy N.
Kultura i Społeczeństwo
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2008
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vol. 52
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issue 2
209-228
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The article considers the main ways, aims and possibilities of revitalising minority languages. The discussion is based on an analysis of a few minority languages (Welsh, Wendi's and Breton) and the action being taken in order to keep them alive. The authoress asks the question as to the degree to which minority cultures and their rights to minority languages are respected by the state and the significance of this to the revitalisation of seriously endangered languages. Her answer is that the most effective method of protecting endangered languages is to support action conducted by representatives of the minority cultures, which will improve the standing of that language and will encourage its use in public life and - at least partly - on official occasions (not forgetting about the introduction of those languages into the education system).
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BRITTANY: DECLINE, CULTURAL REVIVAL AND LANGUAGE POLICY

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Dolowy N.
Sprawy Narodowościowe
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2007
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issue 30
145-164
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Brittany was included in France in the 16th century. It was the time when the process of denationalization and cultural assimilation of its inhabitants started. Main method applied in the battle against the Bretons derived from the language policy with the main aim to eliminate the Breton language from being widely used in the region. That tendency considerably strengthened during the French Revolution. Speaking Breton was banned in schools and in public life as damaging the unity of the state. The Bretons became the object of jeering being often humiliated by the official authorities. As a result they developed negative identity which led to driving their language out and interrupting its intergenerational transmission and causing almost total death of it. Cultural revival of Brittany started in the 1970s and has been slowly changing people's attitude to tradition and culture. Many organizations and activists have been concentrating on saving the Breton language, not only as a symbol of cultural dissimilarity of inhabitants of this region, but also as immense cultural value. However, the attitude of France, that has always negated the existence of minorities on its own territory and regards French as the sole language of the Republic, makes the situation of an endangered language very difficult. Without recognition of people's right to use their mother language and enforcing its status as co-official language, all the operations led by non-government organizations within the region have little chance to succeed. Thus the situation of the Breton language, that has become one of the most endangered languages, is alarming.
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