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General Information
Languages in Europe
Europe concentrates the most popular languages in the world. Five languages have more than 50 million native speakers in Europe: Russian, French, Italian, German, and English. Most languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family.
Maps of alphabets in Europe
Main alphabets used in Europe, Cyprus and Turkey:
Latin alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet
Greek alphabet
Mainly Latin alphabet, but regional also Cyrillic alphabet
Greek and Latin alphabet
Main alphabets used in the past in Europe (around 1900)
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The languages of the European Union are languages used by people within the member states of the European Union. They include the twenty-three official languages of the European Union along with a range of others. The EU asserts that it is in favour of linguistic diversity and currently has a European Commissioner for Multilingualism, Androulla Vassiliou (European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth).
In the European Union, language policy is the responsibility of member states and EU does not have a common language policy; European Union institutions play a supporting role in this field, based on the principle of “subsidiarity.” Their role is to promote cooperation between the member states and to promote the European dimension in the member states language policies. The EU encourages all its citizens to be multilingual; specifically, it encourages them to be able to speak two languages in addition to their mother tongue. Though the EU has very limited influence in this area as the content of educational systems is the responsibility of individual member states, a number of EU funding programmes actively promote language learning and linguistic diversity.
Every country of the European Union have institution(s) who coordinate, advise and help develop policies concerning their official language or languages.
European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth
European Commission - Barroso Commission
Androulla Vassiliou
200 rue de la Loi
(BERL 10/110)
B-1049
[email protected]
Austria
Österreichisches Sprachen-Kompetenz-Zentrum
Ulrike Haslinger
Hans-Sachs-Gasse 3/1, A-8010 Graz, Austria
+43-316-824150-18
[email protected]
Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture
Muriel Warga-Fallenböck
Minoritenplatz 5, A-1014 Wien, Austria
tel.:+43-1-53120 2297
fax.: +43-1-53120 81 2297
[email protected]
Belgium
Service de la langue française
Martine Garsou, Directrice Générale Adjointe
44 Boulevard Léopold II, 1080 Bruxelles, Belgium
+32-2-4132295
[email protected]
Bulgaria
Institut za Bulgarski Ezik - Institute for Bulgarian Language
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Vasil Rainov, Director
Yordanka Trifonova
52 Shipchenski prohod Blvd. Block 17
1113 Sofia
Bulgaria
+ 359-2-8722302
[email protected]
Czech Republic
Institute of the Czech National Corpus
Univerzita Karlova
František Čermák, Director
Námesti Jana Palacha 2
11638 Praha 1
Czech Republic
+420-224241490
[email protected]
Denmark
Dansk Sprognævn
Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen, Director
Njalsgade 136, 2300 København S, Denmark
+45-38158973
[email protected]
Estonia
Eesti Keele Instituut (EK) - Institute of the Estonian Language
Urmas Sutrop, Director
Roosikrants 6, 10119 Tallin, Estonia
+372-644 98 43 or +372-644 98 43
[email protected]
Estonian Language Council
Birute Klaas, Chairperson
Munga 18, 50090 Tartu, Estonia
+372-7-735-0136
[email protected]
Finland
Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus Forskningscentralen för de inhemska språken - Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Pirkko Nuolijärvi, Director
Professor Anna Maria Gustafsson, Researcher
Vuorikatu 24, FI-00100 Helsinki, Finland
+358 20 781 3200
[email protected]
[email protected]
France
Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France
Xavier North, Délégué général
Jean-François Baldi, Délégue adjoint
6, rue des Pyramides, 75001 Paris, France
+33-1-40157300
[email protected]
Germany
Institut für Deutsche Sprache
Ludwig M. Eichinger, Direktor
Gerhard Stickel
Postfach 10 1621, D-69016 Mannheim, Germany
+49-621-1581126
[email protected]
[email protected]
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
Peter Eisenberg
Alexandraweg 23, 64287 Darmstadt,
Germany
+49-30-84313380
[email protected]
Greece
KENTPO EΛΛHNIKHΣ ΓΛΩΣΣAΣ (KEΓ)
Kentro Ellenikis Glossas
Maria Theodoropoulou
Vassiliki Dendrinou
Karamaouna 1, Platia Skra
GR - 551 32 Thessaloniki
Greece
+30-2310-459101-3
[email protected]
[email protected]
Hungary
Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézet
István Kenesei, Director
P.O. Box 360, 1394 Budapest, Hungary
+36-1-321-48-30
[email protected]
Oktatási és Kulturális Minisztérium
Márta Fischer, External expert
Szalay utca 10-14, H-1055 Budapest, Hungary
+36-1-4737514
[email protected]
Iceland
Íslensk málnefnd - Icelandic Language Council
c/o Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum frædum -
Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Gudrún Kvaran
Ari Páll Kristinsson
Neshaga 16, IS-107 Reykjavik,
Iceland
+354-525 4440
[email protected]
Ireland
Foras na Gaeilge
Seán O' Cearnaigh, Programme manager
Pádraig Ó Riagáin
Teach an Gheata Thiar
BT1 6ED Béal Feirste
Ireland
+353-1-6398408
[email protected]
[email protected]
Italy
Accademia della Crusca
Nicoletta Maraschio, Presidente
via di Castello 46, 50141 Firenze, Italy
+39-055-45 42 77 (& 78)
[email protected]
CNR Opera del Vocabolario Italiano
Pietro Beltrami, Direttore
via di Castello 46, 50141 Firenze, Italy
+39-055-45 2841
[email protected]
Latvia
Valsts valodas komisija - State Language Commission
Ina Druviete
Chancery of the President of Latvia
LV-1900 Riga, Latvia
+371-729 21 89
[email protected]
Valsts valodas aģentūra - State Language Agency
Janis Valdmanis, Director
Lāčplēša iela 35-5, LV-1011 Riga,
Latvia
(+ 371) 67201680
[email protected]
Lithuania
Lietuviu Kalbos Institutas
Institute of the Lithuanian Language
Jolanta Zabarskaite, Director
P. Vileisio Gatve 5, 10308 Vilnius - 55
Lithuania
+370-5-234 66 21
[email protected]
Valstybine Lietuviu Kalbos Komisija
State Commission for the Lithuanian Language
Irena Smetoniene, Chairperson
Zveju gatve 14 - 09310 Vilnius
Lithuania
+370-5-272 33 58 (& 10)
[email protected]; [email protected]
Luxembourg
Institut Grand-Ducal
Guy Berg
Institut Grand-Ducal section de linguistique, d'ethnologie et d'onomastique
2a, rue Kalchesbruck L-1852 Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Tel.: +352 247 88640
[email protected]
Malta
Il-Kunsill Nazzjonali tal-llsien Malti
(National Council for the Maltese Language)
Il-Ministeru tal-Edukazzjoni
Uffiċċju 109, Triq l-Assedju l-Kbir
Il-Furjana VLT 2000
Malta
Manwel Mifsud, President ([email protected])
Ray Fabri, Representative Member ([email protected])
[email protected]
Netherlands / Belgium
Nederlandse Taalunie - Dutch Language Union
Linde van den Bosch, General Secretary
Johan Van Hoorde
Ellen Fernhout
Postbus 10595, 2501 HN Den Haag, Netherlands
+31-70-346 95 48
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Norway
Norsk Språkrådet - Norwegian Language Council
Sylfest Lomheim, Director
Postboks 8107 Dep, 0032 Oslo
Norway
+47-22 54 19 50
[email protected]
Poland
Rada Języka Polskiego
przy Prezydium Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Walery Pisarek
Krystyna Pisarkowa
00-330 Warszawa, Poland
+48-12-422 06 44 or +48-22-657 28 89
[email protected]
[email protected]
Portugal
Instituto Camões
Ana Paula Laborinho, Presidente
Fernanda Barrocas
Rua Rodrigues Sampaio, 113
1700-279 Lisboa, Portugal
+351-21-310 91 24
[email protected]
[email protected]
Romania
Academia Româna, Institutul de Lingvistica -
Romanian Academy, Institute of Linguistics
Marius Sala, director
Calea 13 Septembrie nr. 13
050711 Bucharest
Romania
+40-213182452
[email protected]
Academia de Studii Economice Bucuresti -
Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
Corina Cilianu-Lascu
Piaţa Romană 6
district 1, Bucharest
Romania
+40-213191900
[email protected]
Slovakia
Ludovit Stúr Institute of Linguistics
Slovakian Academy of Science
Slavomir Ondrejovich, Director
Panská 26
813 64 Bratislava
Slovakia
+421-2-54431761
[email protected]
Slovenia
Sektor za slovenski jezik
pri Ministrstvu za kulturo
Mag. Velemir Gjurin, vodja sektorja
Maistrova 10
SI-1000 Ljubljana
Tel.: +386 (0)1 400 7959
E-pošta: [email protected]
Spain
Real Academia Española
Victor García de la Concha, Director
Darió Villanueva
Felipe IV, 4, 28071 Madrid
Spain
+34-91-420 1478
[email protected]
[email protected]
Sweden
Språkrådet – Language Council of Sweden
Lena Ekberg, Head of Department
Birgitta Lindgren, International Secretary
P.O. Box 20057, SE-104 60 Stockholm
Sweden
+46-8-442 42 01
+46-8-442 42 06
[email protected]
[email protected]
United Kingdom
British Council
Tony Jones, Director
Research and Consultancy
English and Exams
Bridgewater House
58 Whitworth Street , Manchester M1 6BB
United Kingdom
+44-161-957 7698
[email protected]
Oxford English Dictionary
John Simpson, Chief Editor
Oxford English Dictionary
Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP
+44-1865-353728
[email protected]
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