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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can't the university fight back legally, if the ban
is unconstitutional? Has Spain signed the European Charter for Regional/Minority
Languages?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best of luck</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Julia</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=toni.waho@manatamariki.school.nz
href="mailto:toni.waho@manatamariki.school.nz">Toni Waho</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au
href="mailto:endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au">endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:11 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> ELL: RE: Asturian Language at
the University</DIV>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Xulio
– the oppression continues.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
ban on teaching an endangered language must surely be an invitation by the
authorities to stir the spirit of revolution.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As bad as the news is, thank you for
informing us about the situation facing Asturian. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Toni Waho, Aotearoa (New
Zealand).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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Message-----<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> <A
href="mailto:owner-endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au">owner-endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au</A>
[mailto:owner-endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au]<B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Xulio Viejo
Fernández<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Monday, 13
May 2002 23:39<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>
endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> ELL: Asturian Language at the
University</SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Asturian
language, a non official romance language spoken in NW<BR>Spain, is taught at
the University of Oviedo (Asturias, Spain) from<BR>1984. These classes were
the result of the statements on protection<BR>and teaching of the language
included in Asturian autonomous laws, and<BR>have been continuously supported
by the majority of the university<BR>community, as well as the students, who
enrolled massively in spite of<BR>being optional, not compulsory
courses.<BR><BR>Last week, the Spanish Council of Universities notified
the<BR>University of Oviedo the ban on offering these courses as part of
its<BR>current studies, based on rather obscure political and
administrative<BR>reasons. This ban (which contradicts the spirit of the
Spanish<BR>Constitution and the Asturian autonomous law, as well as
the<BR>democratically expressed will of the University itself and most of
the<BR>teachers and students of the Faculty of Philology) is a harsh
attack<BR>not only to the scientific study of the Asturian language, but
a<BR>serious problem for the training of teachers of other
educational<BR>levels. As a consequence, it seriously threatens the social
survival<BR>of the language.<BR><BR>Asturian is one of the world's endangered
languages, according<BR>to the UNESCO Catalogue and the European Charter for
Minority<BR>Languages, and is theoretically protected by both Asturian and
Spanish<BR>laws.<BR><BR>For more information, contact <A
href="mailto:jviejo@correo.uniovi.es">jviejo@correo.uniovi.es</A> (Xulio
Viejo<BR>Fernandez, Departament of Spanish Philology, University
of<BR>Oviedo)<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><BR
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