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<td id="gmail-_ctl1_story" class="gmail-newsStory"><div style="padding-top:5px">By Tenzin Dharpo<br><br><div style="text-align:center"><div class="gmail-newsPhoto" style="float:left;width:260px;clear:both;padding:5px 5px 5px 0px;margin:auto"><a href="http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=40196&t=1#" title="Click to enlarge"><img src="http://www.phayul.com/images/thumb.aspx?src=180303061910IG.jpg" alt="Representatives of the Wisconsin Tibetan Association and supporters at the Common Council meeting in Madison city, Wisconsin on Feb. 27, 2018." style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;" width="250"></a><div class="gmail-newsPhotoCaption" style="text-align:center;padding:0px 5px 5px">Representatives
of the Wisconsin Tibetan Association and supporters at the Common
Council meeting in Madison city, Wisconsin on Feb. 27, 2018. </div></div></div>DHARAMSHALA,
Mar. 3: The city of Madison in the state of Wisconsin, Unites States,
has officially approved the Tibetan language as one of the new minority
languages, in a historic and unprecedented development on Tuesday. <br><br>The
city’s ‘Common Council’ held a meeting on February 27th, with regard to
the approval of compressive language access plan by the City of Madison
where representatives of the Tibetan community presented cases on the
“importance as well as the need to have the Tibetan language recognized
due to the increase in its usage in this city”.<br><br>“We are very
happy to announce here that the Common Council has unanimously adopted
Tibetan being one of the official minority languages! This has been a
big achievement to the community,” the Wisconsin Tibetan Association
announced on their Facebook page.<br><br>The capital city of the State,
Madison city, has a long history with the Tibetan immigrant community
dating back a few decades. On Thursday (March 1), the Tibetan community
commemorated the 25th anniversary of the US-Tibetan Resettlement
Project. The Dane County Board passed a resolution recognizing the
Wisconsin Tibetan Association and the Dane County Tibetan community.
There is a sizable Tibetan community in the city of Madison which is the
second-most-populous municipality in Wisconsin state. <br><br>Tsetan Dolkar, a Tibetan mother of two who has lived in the city for almost 20 years, told <i>Phayul</i>
that it is a matter of great pride not just for the Tibetans in Madison
but all over, that the Tibetan language which is the only language that
can explain the works of the Nalanda masters and teachings of the
Buddha has been adopted as an official minority language. “I feel proud
that the city which became my home under the resettlement policy has
adopted our language among minority languages. I sincerely thank the
people from our community who have worked so hard in achieving this and
also the city council has given its support.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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