European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
Also known as ECRML
European treaty adopted in 1992
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The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages is a 1992 treaty that commits participating European countries to protect and promote languages spoken by smaller populations within their borders. It matters because it helps preserve linguistic and cultural diversity across Europe by establishing standards for how governments should support these languages in education, media, and public life.
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conventions.coe.int →Title European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ETS No. 148) Reference ETS No. 148 Opening of the treaty Strasbourg 05/11/1992 - Treaty open for signature by the member States and for accession by non-member States Entry in force 01/03/1998 (5 Ratifications.) Summary Official Texts English French Texts DE, IT, RU German Italian Russian Related links Signatures and ratifications Reservations and declarations Related texts Related sites Share Send this link by email Print out these information PDF Bilingual version
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- Official name
- Charte européenne des langues régionales ou minoritaires
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- publication date
- 1992-11-05
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- conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/QueVoulezVous.asp?NT=148&CM=1&CL=FRE
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The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) is a European treaty (CETS 148) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages in Europe. However, the charter does not provide any criterion or definition for an idiom to be a minority or a regional language, and the classification stays in the hands of the national state.
The preparation for the charter was undertaken by the predecessor to the current Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, the Standing Conference of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe because involvement of local and regional government was essential. The actual charter was written in the Parliamentary Assembly based on the Congress' Recommendations. It only applies to languages traditionally used by the nationals of the State Parties (thus excluding languages used by recent immigrants from other states, see immigrant languages), which significantly differ from the majority or official language (thus excluding what the state party wishes to consider as simply local dialects of the official or majority language) and that either have a territorial basis (and are therefore traditionally spoken by populations of regions or areas within the State) or are used by linguistic minorities within the State as a whole (thereby including such languages as Yiddish, Romani and Lemko, which are used over a wide geographic area).