Abstract
Autore:
Ratto Trabucco Fabio
Titolo:
"Il regime linguistico e la tutela delle minoranze in Francia"
In this paper the author examines the theme of the tutelage of the bistorical ethnic-linguistic minorities that are deep-rooted in the French territory. The particular politics applied in Paris since 1539 with the Edict of Villers-Coterets, which sanctioned the use of French in the whole State, was always aimed at achieving the linguistic homogeneity of the national territory by eliminating the anomalies of other languages. Yet there are at least seven minor linguistic entities present in the French territory (Provençal, German, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Flemish, Basque) and each of them was able to safeguard its own specific characteristics although the legal tutelage was and is latent. In fact, with the exception of educational rules, which are contained in the laws and decrees mentioned in this paper, in France there are no real regulations that safeguard in a significant way the minority languages.
What emerges from the paper is a picture showing a substantial deficit of the linguistic regime of the minorities in France in comparison with the tute1ge standards which are present in most democratic countries, so, even though on the one hand some small concessions have been made to the minority languages, in actual fact the situation doesn´t seen to have changed compared to the past centuries and even today linguistic and cultural unity is considered a fundamental aim. Finally, the theme of linguistic minorities includes cunsideration of the complex multicultural situation that characterizes the transalpine country, which has been the subjecs of a long history of immigration especially from the Maghreb countries, with the resulting problem of guaranteeing linguistic rights to the Arab community too, on the same level as the other minority groups residing in France
