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Valadez, Concepción; Etxeberria, Feli; Intxausti, Nahia – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
In the Basque Country, Northern Spain, Basque (Euskera) and Spanish are official languages. In recent decades, Basque language revitalization and the efforts to make this an unmarked language (normalization) have co-existed with the rapid increase in immigration from outside the Basque region, and most recently from outside Spain. Given the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Languages, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
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Taylor-Leech, Kerry – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
Timor-Leste celebrated its formal political independence on 20th May 2002. The National Constitution of the new nation declared the endogenous lingua franca (Tetum) and the former colonial language (Portuguese) to be co-official. The remaining local languages were given the status of national languages. Indonesian and English were designated as…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Linguistic Borrowing, Official Languages