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Language Policy in Spain (Langology)

Ricardo Tavares Lourenço
Translated by Laura Bridges-Pereira
Photo by Betta Designs

Thanks to Google Alerts, I stay up to date with the linguistic world. For now, this search is done in Spanish and Portuguese, which means that the language news will be almost always news from the countries that speak these languages. What is most often published in Spanish is about the language policy in Spain. Daily newspapers such as ABC, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Faro de Vigo, La Voz de Galicia, among others, publish articles, reports and information to record the debates and governmental decisions about the languages of the autonomous regions: Galicia, Euskadi, Catalonia, Valencia, Asturias, Aragon and Balearic Islands. The linguistic conflict has two sides: to adopt bilingualism, Spanish-regional languages or maintain languages as autonomous vehicles in their respective regions at the expense of Spanish. Read more...