Wiki on Minority Language Learning

An autonomous community is an area in Spain that enjoys limited political and administrative autonomy. They were created in accordance with the Spanish constitution of 1978 to guarantee limited autonomy of the nationalities and regions that comprise the Spanish nation. Spain has 17 autonomous communities and many of these have additional official languages next to the official state language Castillian ¹⁾.

A language that may be used for official purposes, such as in government, in court, etc. An official language is bound to an area. For instance: Frisian is an official language only in Frisia, a province of the Netherlands, but not in the whole of the Netherlands. This means that Frisian and may be used in courts in Frisia, but outside of Frisia, only the state language of the Netherlands may be used.

Charter drafted by the Council of Europe offering protection for “regional or minority languages” defined as languages traditionally used within a given territory of a state by nationals of that state who form a group numerically smaller than the rest of the state’s population; they are different from the official language(s) of that state, and they include neither dialects of the official language(s) of the state nor the languages of migrants. View the text of the Charter here.

ISO 639-3 is an international standard to represent names of languages, using three‐letter codes. The standard was developed by SIL International.

If a minority language is mentioned under Part II of the Charter it enjoys the “basic” protection that the Charter has to offer. For more information visit the Charter website.

If a minority language is mentioned under Part III of the Charter it enjoys “additional” protection. For more information visit the Charter website.