Table of Contents

Contents: Ferdie Mac an Fhailigh: Welcome address – Éamon Ó Cuív TD: Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta – Konrad Fuhrmann: Opening speech – Gerhard Stickel: Oscailt/Opening – Miquel Strubell: When sticking out your tongue is even ruder! – Robert Dunbar: Successful cohabitation: What contribution can the law really make? – Peter Hilpold: Das Sprachenregime der Europäischen Union – Michel Alessio : Les relations entre les langues nationales officielles et les langues régionales ou minoritaires – István Kenesei: Minority languages in Hungary – Nicoletta Maraschio/Cecilia Robustelli: Minoranze linguistiche: la situazione in Italia – Elena Jolanta Zabarskaitė: Multilingualism in Lithuania – Lena Ekberg: The national minority languages in Sweden - their status in legislation and in practice – Ulrike Haslinger: Zur sprachlichen Situation in Österreich – Anna Lazarova/Vasil Rainov: On the minority languages in Bulgaria – Pádraig Ó Riagáin: The Relationship between official national languages and regional and minority languages: Ireland – Walery Pisarek: The relationship between official and minority languages in Poland – Slavomír Ondrejovič: Sprachsituation und Sprachpolitik in der Slowakei und die Novellierung des Gesetzes über die Staatssprache der Slowakischen Republik – Manuel Casado Velarde: Spain, a plurilingual state: Spanish and other official languages.

About the Author

Gerhard Stickel is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Mannheim. From 1976 to 2002 he was Director of the Institut für Deutsche Sprache, the central research institution for German. He was co-founder of the European Federation of National Institutions for Language (EFNIL) and has been president of this network of central language institutes of the EU states since 2003.