Fryske Akademy – Mercator Research Centre

ORGANISATION

Fryske Akademy – Mercator Research Centre*

The Fryske Akademy is the research centre concerning the Dutch province of Fryslân and its people, its language and its culture.

Its research focuses on the language and history of Fryslân/Frisian community and is home to ‘Mercator: European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning’. The centre, funded by the provincial government, focuses on research and policy in multilingualism. Other elements of Mercator are an experts’ database in multilingualism, a series of Regional Dossiers describing the position of lesser-used languages in education, and a series of language fact sheets giving brief overviews of language diversity in the current and new EU Member States.

Fryske Akademy – Mercator Research Centre have a seat in the NPLD Steering Committee.

COUNTRY

The Netherlands

TYPE OF ORGANISATION

Associate Member

WEBSITE

https://www.fryske-akademy.nl/

INFORMATION ABOUT THE LANGUAGE

Frisian

NAME OF THE LANGUAGE

NAMME FAN DE TAAL

Frisian

Frysk

TOTAL NUMBER OF SPEAKERS

OANTAL SPREKKERS

600,000

NUMBER OF NATIVE SPEAKERS

OANTAL MEMMETAALSPREKKERS

350,000

REGULATED BY

WETJOUWING EN BELIED

Frisian Language Law 2014; Covenant on Frisian Language and Culture.

Fryske Taalwet 2014; Bestjoersôfspraak Fryske taal en kultuer.

GEOGRAPHICAL AREA

GEOGRAFYSKE SPRIEDING

Province of Fryslân (the Netherlands)

Provinsje Fryslân

LANGUAGE FAMILY

TAALFAMYLJE

West-Germanic

West-germaansk

STATUS OF THE LANGUAGE

TAALSTATUS

Official second language of Province of Fryslân; recognition as Minority Language in the European Charter for Regional or Minoriy Languages.

Twadde rykstaal yn de provinsje Fryslân; erkend as Minderheidstaal yn it Europeesk Hânfest for Regionale of Minderheidstalen.

STATUS AT THE UNIVERSITY

STATUS YN IT HEGER ÛNDERWIIS

Obligatory subject in Primary Teacher Education; optional subject in Secondary Teacher Education.

Ferplichte fak yn de Pabo (basisûnderwiis); karfak yn de Twaddegraads learaarsoplieding (fuortset ûnderwiis).

FIELDS OF USE

WÊR WURDT DE TAAL BRÛKT

Oral use and in writing in public administration, judiciary, education, media, leisure, cultural and social life.

Mûnling en skriftlik yn it iepenbier bestjoer, de rjochtspraak, it ûnderwiis, de media, it kulturele en sosjale libben.

YEAR OF SOURCE

JIER FAN BOARNE

2017