Re: Of accents & dialects
| From: | Lars Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 24, 2008, 13:52 |
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2008/10/24 R A Brown <ray@...>:
> Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets wrote:
>> Even today, the position of the French government on regional languages is
>> ambiguous. They don't dare to move explicitly to destroy them any longer, but
>> they refuse to give them the status and protection that the European Union asks
>> member states to give them.
>
> Let's hope more enlightened attitudes will eventually prevail.
As a data point, when taking the scenic route from Nice to Digne last
summer, we saw signs giving village names in French and Occitan at the
entrance to two or three of the little villages.
Not on road signs, though.
--
Lars