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Norway is strengthening position of minority languages
Many European minority languages are being elevated within legislation and research. Linguistic Minorities in Europe aims to make the research available.
There are up to 100 minority languages in Europe. Norway have six, including Kven and Sami. Photo: UiO.
Speaking more than one language is far more common than speaking just one.. But although many people learn foreign languages to traverse the world and get to know other people, most of the languages we speak are small.
“It is a myth that Norwegian is a small language. In fact, it belongs to the ten percent of languages spoken by the most people,” says Pia Lane, professor of multilingualism at the University of Oslo.