1. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Cor van der Meer Mercator–Education/Fryske Akademy L esser used languages in Estonia and in Europe Roosta, 30 september 2005 Mercator – Education and the situation of Friesland

2. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005

5. Mercator-Education - Typology - Regional Dossiers - Digital Library - Network of Schools The situation in Friesland Overview

6. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Mercator Mercator-Legislation (Barcelona/CIEMEN) Mercator-Media (Aberysthwyth/University of Wales) Mercator-Education (Ljouwert/Fryske Akademy) European Buro for Lesser Used Languages (EBLUL)

7. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Mercator - Education Databases Network of schools Digital library project Q & A service Regional dossiers Research

8. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005

9. Cornish Galician Luxemburgish Catalan (I) Saterfrisian 200 2.000 20.000 280.000 2 M 7 M Differences in size Catalan

10. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 The European Union Regional or minority languages - Language policy: The European Commission's Action Plan Action Plan for Language Learning and Linguistic Diversity

11. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 EU-based typology Unique minority languages a) Welsh, Frisian, Galician b) Catalan (E, I, F), Basque (E, F) Minority languages with a ‘kin-state’ a) German (B, Dk, F, I), French (I), Slovene (Au, I) b) Ukranian (Sl, Pol) Special cases a) Luxemburgish, (Maltese) b) Romani, Yiddish

12. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Variables for strength Family Community Cultural reproduction Prestige Legitimation Institutionalisation Education

13. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Regional Dossiers More than 30 cases Available at the website of ME www.mercator-education.org

14. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Structured contents 1Introduction 2Pre-school education 3Primary education 4Secondary education 5Vocational education 6Higher education 7Adult education 8Educational research 9Prospects 10Summary of statistics Education System in …. References and further reading Useful addresses

15. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Educational provisions strongmediumweak Basque (E) Catalan Galician Irish (Irl) Luxembourgish Swedish Welsh Asturian Corsican Frisian Gaelic German (B) German (F) German (I) Irish (N.Irl) Ladin Meankieli Slovenian (A) Slovenian (I) Sorbian Turkish Cornish Croatian Kashubian Basque (F) Breton North Frisian Occitan Sami Scots 7 149

16. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 (near) complete large part (>50%) small part (<50%) optional/extra -curricular Basque (E) Catalan Frisian Galician German (B) Irish (Irl) Luxembourg -ish Swedish Welsh Corsican Croatian Gaelic German (F) German (I) Slovene (I) Asturian Basque (F) Breton Irish (N.Irl) Kashubian Ladin Meankieli NorthFrisian Occitan Sorbian Sami Slovene (A) Turkish Cornish Scots 96132 Language as a subject

17. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Medium of instruction ≥ half subjects some subjects no medium of instruct not applicable Basque (E) Basque (F) Breton Catalan Galician Gaelic German (B) German (F) German (I) Irish (Irl) Irish (N.Irl) Slovene (A) Slovene (I) Swedish Turkish Welsh Asturian Croatian Frisian Ladin NorthFrisian Luxembourgish Sami Corsican Kashubian Meankieli Occitan Sorbian Cornish Scots 16752

18. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Digital Library project -“Digibyb” a pilotproject -Funded by the KNAW -Focus on Frisian language -Emphasis on publications -Finished May 2005

19. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 The European MInority Language Library (EMILL) -Regional services in European minority language communities -A central service/portal -Focus on unique RML’s

20. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Network of schools

21. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Network of Schools > 30 Members Newsletter Website Teaching materials

22. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Fryslân

23. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Actual Frisian area

24. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Well-known outside Fryslân

25. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 44 27 9 2 10 6 1 Frisians abroad %

26. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Language transmission emigrants: 4 generations

27. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005

28. TERP

29. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Language situation

30. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 taalkaart 870 26.300 634.000 11.500 3.200 342.000 1.500

31. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Home language %

32. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Frisian proficiency %

33. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Covenant Frisian language and culture ProvinceState Government

34. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 - Pre-school - Primary - Secondary - Higher education Education

35. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Media < 5% Frisian > 80% Frisian www.omropfryslan.nl = all in Frisian Daily newspapers Radio&TV

36. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Organisational infrastructure Many organisations:

37. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 Languagedatabank Dictionaries Corpus Spoken Frisian ‘Spell-checker’ Linguistic Infrastructure

38. Mercator – Education, Roosta 2005 cvdmeer@fa.knaw.nl