Hi Peter, Le mercredi 28 juillet 2010 à 07:28 +0100, pbrobin...@gmail.com a écrit : > Hi Samy, > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:14 PM, <s.bouta...@free.fr> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > Not sure if I got the point or your question in my initial answer ( > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2010-July/001626.html ), where you > > will > > find a list of the EU languages with their corresponding ISO codes. > > Anyway, apart from the language list officialy used in the European > > institutions, you should be aware that all of those languages are (AFAIK) > > left > > to right and use one of the following alphabets: latin, cyrillic or greek. > > I''m aware of the base latin/cyrillic/greek language bases but i > wasn't aware that any of those and the EU languages based on them were > right to left languages. > > Apparently (according to Sean a while ago) somewhere there is a list > of officially supported EU languages required for education. I believe > this is a list that is needed to be supported by particular > devices/software in order to be able to be endorsed by the EU. I know > nothing more about this but if you have links I would appreciate it. > > Peter >
As for the EU language policy in education, you should find a review of the guidelines set by the EU authorities in: http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/Conventions_EN.asp and in http://ec.europa.eu/education/languages/eu-language-policy/index_en.htm?cs_mid=183 The general aim of thoses recommendations, as defined in the "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages" is to encourage member states to promote widespread plurilingualism, not only in the use of the European national languages but also of the regional or minorities languages and dialects (aka minority languages). The aim is to promote et to preserve the diversity of cultural expressions. As for education is concerned, the EU states should promote the bilingualism and plurilingualism in education. One of the most recent recomendation is the "Recommendation CM/Rec(2008)7E to member states on the use of the Council of Europe's “Common European Framework of Reference for Languages” (CEFR) and the promotion of plurilingualism (and Explanatory Memorandum)": http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/Source/SourceForum07/Rec%20CM% 202008-7_EN.doc For more information, see the page on the "European Language Portfolio", a tool aimed to support the development of plurilingualism and pluriculturalism: www.coe.int/portfolio Maybe you may find here informations suitable for your needs. Regards, Samy _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
