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ELEN Batzar Orokorra – General Assembly BILBO 2024.

Language activist organizations from across Europe gathered in the Basque Country for the ELEN General Assembly 2024, Europe’s main event for NGOs working for the protection and promotion of European minoritized languages. The European Language Equality Network (ELEN)...

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European Language Equality Network updated their status.Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 at 2:20pm
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European Language Equality NetworkTuesday, January 21st, 2025 at 9:26am
#Brezhoneg: a new TMO study estimates that the number of Breton speakers has halved over the last six years falling from 214,000 in 2018 to 107,000 today, not including speakers under 15.

Its a significant as well as an expected decline given that the average age of speakers in the previous survey was 70 years old, but its still shocking. It shows how effective the French state's long term language policy against Breton has been in deliberately undermining the language.

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