Soziolinguistika Klusterra | Sociolinguistics Cluster*

ORGANISATION

Soziolinguistika Klusterra | Sociolinguistics Cluster

Soziolinguistika Klusterra (Basque Sociolinguistics Cluster) is the main research center for Basque language social development. Its aim is to create and manage sociolinguistic knowledge in order to address the needs of the Basque language revitalisation process, by taking on a leading role in the language recovery and normalisation work and promoting innovation.

At Soziolinguistika Klusterra, our main goal is to build on and enhance the sociolinguistic work done by the parties involved in the Basque language revitalisation process: academic and social agents, public administrations, language planning experts, professionals and language activists, among others.

To this end, we develop collaborative projects, by building bridges between theoretical knowledge and the applied field of such knowledge.

Many of the main Basque language revitalisation agents are members of Soziolinguistika Klusterra and actively participate in the management of the organisation and ongoing projects.

Our 9-people staff, formed by researchers and specialised workers, is committed to carry out applied research projects, while developing new methodologies for the revitalisation of the language, in collaboration with the universities and the organisation members.

One of our main research interests is minority language use and strategies to increase it. Current research lines at Soziolinguistika Klusterra are as follows:

Language habits: methodologies to promote a change in favour of the minoritised language
Language and migration: presence of migrants’ languages and migrants’ language attitudes
Oracy: pedagogical methodologies to promote Basque oracy at schools
Language and sports: methodologies to increase the presence of the Basque language at sport clubs
Language and work: methodologies for language management in the work environment.
Language activation: ways for promoting the active involvement of the citizens in the revitalisation of the language
Measurement of language use through observation

For further information, please visit our website: https://soziolinguistika.eus/en/

Soziolinguistika Klusterra has an elected representative in NPLD’s Steering Committee.

COUNTRY

Spain

TYPE OF ORGANISATION

Associate Member.

WEBSITE

http://www.soziolinguistika.eus/en

INFORMATION ABOUT THE LANGUAGE

Basque

NAME OF THE LANGUAGE

HIZKUNTZAREN IZENA

Basque

Euskara

TOTAL NUMBER OF SPEAKERS

HIZTUN-KOPURUA GUZTIRA

809,300

NUMBER OF NATIVE SPAKERS

LEHEN HIZKUNTZA EUSKARA DUTENEN KOPURUA

515,500

GEOGRAPHICAL AREA

EREMU GEOGRAFIKOA

Basque Autonomous Community (BAC), Navarre and Northern Basque Country (NBC)

Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa EAE, Nafarroa eta Ipar Euskal Herria (IEH)

LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL STATUS

ESTATUS JURIDIKOA ETA INSTITUZIONALA

Official in the BAC, official in the Basque speaking area of Navarre, and not official in the NBC

Ofiziala EAEn, ofiziala Nafarroako eremu batzuetan, eta ez ofiziala IEHn

FIELDS OF USE

ERABILERA-ARLOAK

Used in all social areas: writing and oral use in public administration, judiciary, education (all levels), health services, media, leisure, cultural and social life, and in socio-economics (according to the level of formalization in each of the territories of Basque).

Gizartearen alor guztietan: idatzizko eta ahozko erabilera herri-administrazioan, justizian, hezkuntzan (maila guztietan), osasun-arloan, hedabideetan, aisialdian, kultura- eta gizarte-bizitzan, eta esparru sozioekonomikoan (euskararen lurralde bakoitzean dagoen ofizializazio-mailaren arabera)

YEAR OF SOURCE

2021 (population aged 16 or over)