Council of Europe questionnaire on minority languages

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has requested FUEN to help them with collecting information for a report on “the promotion of regional or minority languages in Europe”.

For this purpose, a questionnaire has been sent to the parliamentary delegations of the Council of Europe to collect data on the use of regional and minority languages in the 47 member states of the Council of Europe, especially the ones that have not ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

As a second step, the Parliamentary Assembly wants to reach minority associations, organisations and NGOs to collect further data. The purpose of the questionnaire is also to make an overview of policy measures and good practices in each country, possibly including information not contained in the responses of the member states of the Council of Europe.

It is a very good opportunity to map the situation of the regional or minority languages in Europe, in those countries* that are not being monitored by the Committee of Experts for the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Therefore FUEN very much recommends that you fill in this questionnaire.

Below you find the questionnaire in English and French, the two official languages of the Council of Europe.

More information:
Questionnaire in English
Questionnaire in French

*Member states of the Council of Europe, that did not ratify the Language Charter: Albania, Andorra, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Portugal, Russia, San Marino, Macedonia, Turkey.