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+ | ======Glossary of Terms===== | ||
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==== Autonomous Community ==== | ==== Autonomous Community ==== | ||
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==== Council of Europe ==== | ==== Council of Europe ==== | ||
- | A European wide human rights organisation. Many European states | + | A European wide human rights organisation |
==== European Charter for Regional and Minority languages ==== | ==== European Charter for Regional and Minority languages ==== | ||
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If a minority language is mentioned under Part III of the Charter it enjoys " | If a minority language is mentioned under Part III of the Charter it enjoys " | ||
+ | ==== Endangered Languages Project ==== | ||
+ | The Endangered Languages Project is a knowledge-sharing platform for language documentation, | ||
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+ | ==== Ethnologue ===== | ||
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+ | Ethnologue is a [[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Glottolog ==== | ||
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+ | Glottolog is a the [[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== International Labour Organization ==== | ||
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+ | International Labour Organization (ILO) is a U.N. agency with [[https:// | ||
==== ISO 639-3 ==== | ==== ISO 639-3 ==== | ||
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For Example: In the kingdom of the Netherlands, | For Example: In the kingdom of the Netherlands, | ||
+ | ==== Ratification of a treaty==== | ||
+ | After the signature of a treaty, a state may ratify a treaty. The state is bound to the treaty and agrees to comply to and to implement the provisions of the treaty. | ||
+ | For the Council of Europe, the states that have ratified a treaty agree to periodic reports on the execution of the treaty. | ||
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==== Regional or minority languages ==== | ==== Regional or minority languages ==== | ||
- | Defined in the [[general_information: | + | |
+ | Defined in the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages 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. | ||
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+ | ==== Signature of a treaty==== | ||
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+ | A state can become a party of the treaty by signing it. As a party, a state cannot interfere with the purpose of the treaty. | ||
==== Standardized orthography ==== | ==== Standardized orthography ==== | ||
- | If a minority language has a standardized orthography, | + | If a minority language has a standardized orthography, |
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+ | ==== Treaty==== | ||
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+ | A treaty is "an international agreement concluded between States in written form and governed by international law, whether embodied in a single instrument or in two or more related instruments and whatever its particular designation" | ||
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+ | A convention, agreement, charter, code, framework convention, or outline convention are forms of a treaty. | ||
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+ | ==== UNESCO ==== | ||
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+ | United Nations Educational, | ||
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+ | ==== UNESCO Atlas of the World' | ||
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+ | The UNESCO Atlas of the World' | ||
+ | ==== United Nations==== | ||
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+ | Established in October 24, 1945, the United Nations (UN) is an international organisation with [[https:// | ||
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