7 Amendments of Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ related to 2013/2007(INI)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas all languages, including those which are endangered, reflect historical, social, cultural and ecologic and cultural knowledge and skills that form part of the richness of the European Union;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas there are therefore many traditional European languages throughout the EU that should be regarded as being endangered: in the High North, in Atlantic areas in northern and southern Europe, in the Alps, in the Pyrenees, in the Mediterranean, in northern Europe, in central Europe and in European territories overseas;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the European Union and the Member States to pay more attention to the extreme danger that many European languages are in, and to commit wholeheartedly to a policy of protection and promotion that is up to the job of preserving the diversity of the Union’s linguistic and cultural heritage by supporting ambitious protection policies within the language communities concerned;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Takes the view that the European Union should support a language policy that enables children to acquire two or more mother tongues from the very earliest age in the territories where they are spoken; points out that such a programme would, as all linguists maintain, help children learn additional languages and acquire other knowledge later on, and that it would offer speakers of traditional languages practical support in revitalising intergenerational language transmission in areas in which it is dwindling;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Takes the view that new technologies can provide a tool for fostering the knowledge, dissemination, teaching and preservation of endangered European languages;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to provide constant support, via its various programmes, for transnational networks and European-level initiatives and activities that are designed to promote endangered languages, and emphasises that active participation is needed in order to ensure thatdevelop and promote UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger remains a permanent fixture;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9