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	An introduction to the Corsican language.
		Not surprisingly, the use of Corsican is at its highest in connection with traditional singing and in cultural groups (70-80% of those participating), hunting and fishing (60-70%), whereas in church it's down to 11% and in night clubs 4%.
		Corsican is used increasingly on a voluntary basis by teachers at pre-primary level.
		The cultural sponsorship of the language is considerable and of course in the field of song, it is paramount.
	www.corsica-isula.com /language.htm (2680 words)

	Corsican language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Corsican (Corsu or Lingua Corsa) is a Romance language spoken on the island of Corsica (France), alongside French, which is the official language.
		Corsican is also spoken to some extent in the Gallura and Sassari areas of Sardinia (Italy).
		The Corsican language is a key vehicle for Corsican culture, which is notably rich in proverbs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corsican_language (268 words)

	hotel corsica : art ajaccio corsica, ferry ajaccio corsica, travel corsica
		The Corsican language is spoken by more than 70% of the population despite the fact that it was suppressed by the III Republic, was almost wiped out by television and the modern world.
		The III Republic tried to eradicate the Corsican language in the name of sacrosanct centralisation, which had widely damaged the regional cultures, as in Brittany where school children were forbidden to speak Breton.
		Corsican is a rich language, and has been taught in schools and at the university since the government granted it in 1974 the statute of a regional language.
	www.toute-la-corse.com /location-corse/corsica/art-culture-corsica/ajaccio-sartene-propriano/art-culture/dart/en/6/art-culture-corsica.htm (204 words)

	EUROPA - Education and Training - Europa - Regional and minority languages - Euromosaïc study
		Corsican is a Romance language, close to the central Italian dialects and spoken on the French island of Corsica in the northern Mediterranean, off the French Riviera coast.
		Corsican has no official status within the French legal system, although it enjoys some measure of official recognition as the result of a French Government decree of 1974 on the teaching of the Corsican language in schools (application of the Deixonne Act to Corsica).
		The reasons for this are economic (decrease in the active population as a result of the continual emigration of Corsican speakers, passage from a traditional to a modern society), social (emphasis on French as one of the keys to social advancement) and demographic (job shortage in rural areas leading to gradual depopulation of the countryside).
	europa.eu.int /comm/education/policies/lang/languages/langmin/euromosaic/fr5_en.html (2977 words)

	Encyclopedia: Corsican language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Corte (Corsican Corti) in is a town and a commune in the Haute-Corse département in central Corsica, in France.
		Ajaccio (Corsican: Aiacciu) is a city and commune of France, préfecture (capital) of the département of Corse-du-Sud and, since 1810 capital of the région of Corsica.
		See also: Languages of France There are a number of languages of France, although the French language is by far the most widely spoken and the only official language of the country.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Corsican-language (736 words)

	Corsica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The mountains are cooler and wetter, and home to the Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion, which support diverse forests of oak, pine, and evergreen deciduous trees, with vegetation more typical of northern Europe on the highest peaks.
		The proposed autonomy for Corsica would have included greater protection for the Corsican language (Corsu), the island's traditional language, whose practice and teaching, like other regional or minority languages in France, had in the past been discouraged.
		According to the UNESCO classification, the Corsican language is currently in danger of becoming extinct.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corsica (1370 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Corsicans in France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Corsicans’ behavior diverges from many other minority groups in that their persistent rebellion is not mirrored by many factors known to cause such rebellion, such as: 1) high levels of group organization and cohesion, 2) regime instability, 3) and government repression.
		In May 2001, the French national government controversially voted to increase the power of the Corsican legislature, and to increase protection for the Corsican language and culture on the island by 2004.
		One grievance which is difficult for any level of government to address is the Corsicans belief that most of the tourist facilities on the island are owned by non-Corsicans, therefore the Corsican people are denied the larger profits from their land, instead they are forced to work at the resorts and receive less money.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=22004 (731 words)

	Corsican language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The language is spoken on the island of Corse has long been subject to arguments and discussions in Romance linguistics.
		Scientists are still in doubt whether Corsican should be referred to as an Italian dialect, a French dialect or a separate language which is close to Italian, Occitan, Catalan and French.
		Maybe it used to be so, but nowadays the development of Corsican writing and speech apart from official Italian encourages the formation of the single Corsican language.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /tree/ital/corsican.html (175 words)

	World congress on language policies
		The last group consists of language communities whose position and provisions also depend on the central government, but the real protection of the regional and minority language is dependent on the local policies of municipalities and their political and administrative leaderships, such as boards of education.
		Most of the 15 language communities have good provisions for their language in education, although the scale and the degree of these provisions in the same category are highly varied.
		Instead of referring to particular languages, Spain has ratified for regional or minority languages that are co-official languages in the autonomous communities and the languages that are protected by the statuses of autonomy in the territories where they are traditionally spoken.
	www.linguapax.org /congres/taller/taller4/Alie.html (6743 words)

	News From France
		Corsican is not a dialect of French, but an Indo-European language of Romance or Latin origin, influenced by Tuscan.
		The language had been purely oral until the end of the 19th century, when it was written down for the first time.
		In the educational realm, the language is used on a volunteer basis by teachers at the primary level and is offered as an option at the secondary level.
	www.info-france-usa.org /publi/nff/0206/reg.htm (1101 words)

	Corsian language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Corsican is closely related to Italian, particularly to the dialect of Tuscany, and there is considerable mutal intelligibility between these languages.
		Corsican is essentially an oral language and as a result, there is considerable regional variation, particularly between the north and south of Corsica.
		Corsican is used at all levels of education in Corsica.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/corsican.htm (490 words)

	Corsica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Corsica, (Corsican: Corsica, French: Corse), is an island in the Mediterranean Sea, located roughly west of Italy, south-east of France and north of Sardinia (Italy).
		Some supporters of Corsican independence have launched a campaign of bombings and assassinations to try to force the French government to grant it independence.
		In a referendum on July 6, 2003, a majority of Corsican voters opposed a project from the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy that would have modified the political institutions of the island and granted them greater autonomy.
	www.theezine.net /c/corsica.html (606 words)

	CORSICA THE CORSICAN LANGUAGE
		From this influence corsican language incontestably kept a Dantesque Color ; it even owns to it to be considered as a privileged place preserving italic archaisms, by certain sociolinguists of the peninsula.
		Under the heading of curiosities, we have to notice that it exists in Gallura, in the north of Sardinia, a dialect which is closely related to the one of Corsica of the South because of a population of corsican shepherds at the beginning of the 17th century.
		Conversely linguistic islands which were formerly set up, constitute an originality in very Corsica: the dialect of Bonifacio, language imported from Liguria in the 13th century by the genoese settlers, and from Greek, introduced by the settlers from the region of Laconia, Maina in Greece, settled near from Carghjese in the 17th and 18th centuries.
	www.corsica.net /corsica/uk/discov/lang (378 words)

	Language Use Survey: Corsican
		This is of relevance for the data concerning the first language learnt in table 3 which suggests that some families have recently being incorporating French into their language practice in the home.
		Evidently the respondents' have tended to marry inside the language group, with fewer than 15% of the partners having a low degree of Corsican language competence.
		Thus, although the use of Corsican seems to be in decline, especially among the younger generation, and more people are speaking Corsican and French, rather than purely Corsican, the Corsican language seems to have pervaded more into the use of French, rather than vice versa.
	www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/cors/an/e1/e1.html (2114 words)

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	www.language-learning.net (140 words)

	French Parliament Approves Limited Autonomy for Corsicans- Global Policy Forum - Nations and States
		Under the autonomy bill, the island's regional assembly will gain the right to amend some national legislation to suit the island's needs, and the Corsican language is to become part of the curriculum in all schools.
		The article that would have given Corsican politicians development powers over the island's coast was removed after objections from the Greens, who feared a proliferation of environmentally unsound projects.
		Drawing on a long tradition of lawlessness and resentment of outside interference, a number of competing underground groups — many said to be allied to corrupt political and business interests — have used a campaign of shootings and bombings to destabilize central authority.
	www.globalpolicy.org /nations/corsica.htm (620 words)

	Corsica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Generally speaking, autonomist proposals focus on the promotion of the Corsican language, more power for local governments, and some exemptions from national taxes additional to those that currently apply to Corsica.
		The proposed autonomy for Corsica would include greater protection for the Corsican language (Corsu), the traditional language of the island, which, like other regional or minority languages in France, had in the past been discouraged.
		In a referendum on July 6, 2003, a narrow majority of Corsican voters opposed a project from the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy that would have modified the political institutions of the island and granted them greater autonomy.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Corsica.htm (1170 words)

	Meractor Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to official estimates, Corsican is taught in most schools, chiefly as a result of campaigning to have the Deixonne Law extended to include Corsican, a development which occurred in 1974.
		he situation with regard to the Corsican language in the media is a varied one.
		Many magazines cover Corsican daily life but very few are written entirely in Corsican, since, owing to a lack of the relevant education, many people find it difficult to read the language.
	www.aber.ac.uk /~merwww/english/lang/corsican.htm (310 words)

	Ladin language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although Ladin in Italian is referred to as "Ladino", this language should not be confused with another (The group of languages derived from Latin) Romance language, (A person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)) Ladino (Judæo-Spanish)
		It presents connections with the Swiss (The Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in southeastern Switzerland; it is an official language of Switzerland) Romansh and (A Rhaeto-Romance dialect spoken in northeastern Italy) Friulian.
		It is officially recognized in Italy and has some official rights in the region of (A region of northeastern Italy bordering Austria) Trentino-Alto Adige, while it does not have official status in the province of Belluno ((A region of northeastern Italy on the Adriatic) Veneto region).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/La/Ladin_language.htm (356 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:COI
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		Corsican is in the Tuscan group of Italian varieties.
		Southern Corsican is closer to northern Sardinian or Gallurese than other Corsican dialects (R. Hall, Jr.) Dialects of Bastia, Venaco, Vico, and Sartene have 79% to 89% lexical similarity.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=COI (165 words)

	Paris Offers Corsican Separatists Some Autonomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The plan is aimed at ending more than 25 years of bombings and political assassinations by Corsican separatists fighting for the island's independence.
		And it calls for the Corsican language, a dialect of Italian, to become an obligatory part of the school curriculum, unless a parent asks for an exception.
		For instance, the Corsicans have been asking for a general amnesty for those involved in the political violence and a release of "political prisoners." But there is no mention of these issues.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/540/handouts/french/corsica/corsica1.htm (281 words)

	2005 Population Figures for San Marino, San Marino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		She was famous for her salty language and dirty jokes.
		English is the official language of the Congress.
	travel.synabu.com /cities/S/San_Marino,_San_Marino.html (632 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Ideologies in Action: Language Politics on Corsica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jaffe’s ethnography focuses both on the way dominant language ideologies are inscribed in the everyday experience of ordinary people, as well as how they shape the evolving strategies of language planners trying to revitalize the Corsican language.
		While Jaffe’s analysis demonstrates the pervasive influence of dominant language ideologies on minority language speakers and language planners, she also draws on case studies from everyday discourse, educational practice and public and mediatized debates over language issues to develop an ethnographically-grounded perspective on levels of resistance.
		In the final part of the book she explores the emergence (and the limits) of "radical" genres of resistance found in new forms of Corsican language activism and in examples of codeswitching and language mixing in bilingual radio practice.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/3110164450 (484 words)

	Corsican Translation Service - English to Corsican Translation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		You probably don't speak Corsican yourself, so there are a few questions you'll need to consider when choosing a translation company.
		Language is a living thing it develops and changes constantly.
		Corsican is in the Tuscan group of Italian varieties.
	www.appliedlanguage.com /languages/Corsican_translation.shtml/?source=germanfreelance (504 words)

	Interpreting services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Whatever the language, wherever you are, our professional interpreters can help you.
		Sign language interpreters for deaf or hearing impaired people is now a vital service which we are proud to be able to offer you.
		Whatever language you need interpreting for we can provide a service that suits you.
	www.appliedlanguage.com /interpreting_services.shtml (138 words)

	I Muvrini: Leia - PopMatters Music Review
		Leia translated from Corsican means "link", and the choice of this title signifies the link between all people, all languages, and all cultures without losing the individual identity of any one culture -- especially their own.
		They have been singing since they were children and their voices resonate with the anger, sorrow, and joy of an island and its people who have been conquered, re-conquered, and oppressed throughout history and who are still trying to claim some sort of independence.
		He is a man, not only involved in the preservation of the Corsican language, history, and culture, but also dedicated to the struggle against injustice in the world.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/i/imuvrini-leia.shtml (1051 words)

	Corsican language at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Corsican (corsu) is a Romance language and group of dialects spoken on the island of Corsica (France), and as a variety in the Gallura region of Sardinia (Italy).
		Even though French is the official language of Corsica, Corsican is more closely related to Italian than it is to French.
		The Corsican language is the vehicle of the Corsican culture, which is notably rich of proverbs or polyphonic songs that emerge from a millenary oral transmission.
	wiki.tatet.com /Corsican_language.html (211 words)

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