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12 January, 2006

A bit of trivia

How smart are you people? Let me see.

What are the only 2 EC countries without an official minority language.

Enlighten me with the very genious of yourselves.

6 comments:

Eric said...

Uh...

Germany and Portugal??

Am I close??

Catpee said...

Um....the UK should be one.

Emma in Canada said...

It's a shame that you two were the only ones willing to give this a go. Either that, or you are the only ones reading me!

Anyway, you're both partially right. It's Portugal and England. I don't think you can say the U.K. as both Scotland and Wales have minority languages, and Emma you would know better than me, but isn't N.Ireland including Gaelic these days?

Eric said...

I got one! Yay!

That England bit is sort of a trick question, though.

Catpee said...

I'm not sure about minority language here but I've noticed that some events recently are producing information leaflets in Irish and Ulster-Scots or at least stating on their brochures and leaflets that information in Irish and Ulster-Scots can be provided on request. It strikes me as a bit daft really because it's not as if people who use Irish and Ulster-Scots don't understand english whereas there is a large chinese population in Northern Ireland esp. Belfast who would benefit from information being in Mandarin and no-one ever thinks about them.

Emma in Canada said...

Although everything here is required by law to be in both English and French, we also have a huge Asian population and I haven't seen anything in any of those languages either. I suppose that in moving to an English speaking country they are expected to learn the langage. And I guess most of them do.