From France 24 in November 2007, how the Belgian village of Linkebeek is ogged by communitary tensions over languages. I cycled around Ballieul, Godewaersvelde, Boeschepe and Hondschoote, all ...

The General Delegation on the French Language and the Languages of France, the body tasked with coordinating language policy at the national level, is proposing a definition of the regional languages ...

France a ‘rogue state’ on regional languages. Campaigners say Breton, Occitan, Corsican and others will soon cease to be living languages without formal recognition.

France's language policy has long placed French as the only “language of the Republic” and has ignored or even banned the use of more than 20 minority languages spoken across the country. Fast forward ...

France's Ministry of Education has confirmed the immersive teaching of regional languages has been authorised in public schools, after concerns were raised following a decision from the ...

The study did not take in dozens of regional French languages, including Breton - with its Celtic links - as well as Basque, Corsican, Alsatian, and Occitan ...

The Constitutional Council of France struck down a bill Friday permitting schools to teach the majority of the day in regional languages such as Basque, Breton, and Corsican for being unconstitutional ...

The French now number 66 million, and among them there are over 2.2 million speakers of regional languages like Breton and Corsican, according to a recent survey carried out by FLAREP, an ...

Regional language campaigners denounce France. Basque, Catalan, Alsatian and Corsican speakers deliver petition to UNESCO in Paris asking for “cultural asylum”.

Despite centuries of efforts to make standardised French the language of all of France, ... Since the 1950s, Occitan and other minority regional languages in France – such as Breton, ...

The Breton version of an innovative French feature film also dubbed into six other regional languages was released in Brittany's regional capital, Rennes, on Monday. The first screening of Au ...