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<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Eurolang</b> <<a href="mailto:editor@eurolang.net">editor@eurolang.net</a>><br>Date: Nov 23, 2007 10:32 AM<br>
<div><br> <a href="http://www.eurolang.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2990&Itemid=1&lang=en" target="_blank"><font size="3">Top model Doutzen Kroes says: "Praat mar Frysk"</font></a><br><br>
She is one of the official faces of L'Oréal and the best paid model in the history of the Netherlands. Now, Frisian born and bred Doutzen Kroes (22) has decided to lend her face to the Frisian language campaign 'Praat mar Frysk' run by the Frisian language institute Afûk.
<br><br><a href="http://www.eurolang.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2988&Itemid=1&lang=en" target="_blank"><font size="3">Basque uproar over Wall Street Journal article</font><br></a><br>Wall Street Journal article creates an uproar in the Basque Country with writers, academics, journalists and the Basque Government writing in protest to the newspaper.
<br><br><a href="http://www.eurolang.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2987&Itemid=1&lang=en" target="_blank"><font size="3">Basque used for the first time at the EU Council of Ministers</font>
</a><br><br>Basque was used for the first time on Friday in the Council of Ministers of the European Union, the EU's chief decision-making body. <br><br><a href="http://www.eurolang.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2984&Itemid=1&lang=en" target="_blank">
<font size="3">Ar Redadeg - The Run to support Breton</font><br></a><br>Inspired by the phenomenal success of the Basque 'Korrika', thousands of runners are expected for the first 'Redadeg' (Run). The event aims to promote Breton language learning, increase language usage, and to raise money for the chronically underfunded Diwan bilingual schools.
<br><br> <a href="http://www.eurolang.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2993&Itemid=1&lang=en" target="_blank"><font size="3">BBC criticised over UK's indigenous languages</font><br><br></a>
<div>The BBC is facing strong criticism from politicians and language activists alike for recent decisions involving Gaelic, Scots and Cornish. <br><br><a href="http://www.eurolang.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2992&Itemid=1&lang=en" target="_blank">
<font size="3">Problems for Finnish speakers in Sweden</font></a><br><br><a href="http://www.eurolang.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2991&Itemid=1&lang=en" target="_blank"><font size="3">Struggle to find teachers for Sámi language classes
</font></a><br><br><a href="http://www.eurolang.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2989&Itemid=1&lang=en" target="_blank"><font size="3">Sinn Féin take case for Irish language legislation to Brussels
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