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| | Corsica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Corsica (French: Corse; Corsican: Corsica) is the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily, Sardinia, and Cyprus). | | | Some groups who claim to support Corsican independence have carried out a violent campaign since the 1970s that includes bombings and a few assassination attempts, usually targeting pieds-noirs and other non-Corsicans, or buildings and officials representing the French government. | | | There is support on the island for proposals of greater autonomy, but polls show that a large majority of Corsican are opposed to full independence. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsica
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| | MAR Data Assessment for Corsicans in France |
| | 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. | | | If the sporadic allegations that Corsican bombings are financially and criminally - rather than politically - motivated prove true, the quest for separatism may be cast in an entirely different light. | | | They are not politically discriminated against on the national-level, but the greatest concern for Corsicans is focused on regional political and cultural grievances (POLDIS00 = 0). |
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http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=22004
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| | Paris Offers Corsican Separatists Some Autonomy |
| | 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. | | | The plan is aimed at ending more than 25 years of bombings and political assassinations by Corsican separatists fighting for the island's independence. | | | But he has come under fire from the right, and even from some of his own ministers, for conducting negotiations with people who have refused to condemn violence. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/540/handouts/french/corsica/corsica1.htm
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| | Language Use Survey: Corsican |
| | Politics is one of the contexts within which the use of both Corsican and French is very widely reported. | | | Forty percent of the respondents claimed Corsican as the 'first language learned' while a further 30% claimed both French and Corsican as indistinguishable in this respect (table 3). | | | This survey was carried out by drawing the 300 interviews from a quota sample at 10 different sampling points scattered throughout the island. |
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http://www.uoc.edu/euromosaic/web/document/cors/an/e1/e1.html
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| | Chronology |
| | Police initially believed that the assassination was unrelated to Corsican separatism, in part due to the then-current cease-fire by the FLNC, but a previously unknown political group later claimed responsibility. | | | November 1990: Thirty people have been killed by Corsican separatist terrorists in the past 9 months. | | | 12 September 1990: A caller claiming to represent the Corsican Liberation Army (ALC) claims responsibility for the bombing of 4 French banks in Corsica. |
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http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/data/frcorsicchro.htm
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| | EUROPA - Education and Training - Europa - Regional and minority languages - Euromosaïc study |
| | The newspaper A Muvra, founded in 1920, was the focal point for the first circle of autonomists, who founded the Partitu Corsu d'Azione in 1923, under the influence of the Partito Sardo d'Azione that had only recently been constituted in Sardinia. | | | The French Government has never really pursued a policy of promoting Corsican in society and especially not in its dealings with the public. | | | Socioeconomic conditions for the preservation of Corsican have long been unfavourable, due to the twofold phenomenon of the emigration of native speakers and the immigration of non-speakers. |
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/policies/lang/languages/langmin/euromosaic/fr5_en.html
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| | World congress on language policies |
| | I am completely aware of the delicacy to state figures of language communities because of political reasons and also because of different sources. | | | This has clearly reduced the support for mothertongue instruction and for minority languages and has left an open conflict between the rhetoric of national political aims and local praxis. | | | In other countries these language figures are based on researches/census in which they ask people what their mothertongue is and what their abilities in the language are. |
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http://www.linguapax.org/congres/taller/taller4/Alie.html
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| | CNN.com - French extend Corsican powers - December 19, 2001 |
| | Corsica's main nationalist militant group claimed responsibility on Monday for 17 attacks carried out on the island during the past few months and blamed Paris' "lack of political courage" for an increase in tension. | | | The island's assembly, which has been under French rule since 1768, is set to have more say over how some Paris laws can be adapted to suit Corsica's interests as well as promotion of the island's language. | | | Opposition parties say reforms will undermine the French state by paving the way for full Corsican independence. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/12/19/france.corsica
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| | Gallurese |
| | First of all, a geographical reason could not allow any different classification; oppositors however stress that the Catalan spoken in Alghero and the Tabarchino spoken in the minor island of Sant'Antioco are not actually submitted to this rule. | | | Pittau), although no one would ever deny that it is the same language. | | | It could also be that Corsican had been influenced by Sardinian. |
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http://www.yotor.com/wiki/en/ga/Gallurese.htm
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| | French Parliament Approves Limited Autonomy for Corsicans- Global Policy Forum - Nations and States |
| | On Monday the front claimed responsibility for 17 recent armed attacks on police barracks and ministry buildings, and said the attacks were the fault of the government because of its "lack of political courage. | | | Since the start of talks that led to the autonomy bill, the main separatist groups — united under the Corsican National Liberation Front — have in theory been observing a cease-fire, but in the last year the violence has increased again. | | | It passed narrowly with votes of the ruling Socialists and their Green Party allies. |
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http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations/corsica.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Ideologies in Action: Language Politics on Corsica |
| | Amazon.ca: Books: Ideologies in Action: Language Politics on Corsica | | | Look for books like Ideologies in Action: Language Politics on Corsica by subject: | | | This detailed exploration of the ideological and political underpinnings of three decades of language planning raises fundamental questions about what it means to "save" a minority language, and the way in which specific cultural, political, and ideological contexts shape the "success" and "failures" of linguistic engineering efforts. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/3110164450
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| | I Muvrini: Leia - PopMatters Music Review |
| | 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. | | | He asks within the lyrics of the song, "Where does the anguish go?" but calls on the Corsican people to put aside this anguish, this pain. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/i/imuvrini-leia.shtml
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| | Corsica - discover the Mediterranean island from the inside! |
| | Sir Gilbert Elliott - Viceroy during the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom (1794-96), said "the Corsican people were an enigma of which nobody could be sure to have the key." | | | This required complete freedom to move about, with the sense of the private ownership land being alien. | | | While Corsica has seldom been a sovereign state, it is a country that has never been subjugated. |
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http://www.corsica-isula.com
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| | Corsican in France |
| | methods used and what is at stake in the politics of language | | | Bill issued by the government concerning the Corsican | | | This means that the mark for Corsican is taken into |
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http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/mercator/regionale_dossiers/regional_dossier_corsican_in_france.htm
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| | 2005 Population Figures for San Marino, San Marino |
| | Previously Featured on What's New at CIA for 2001 | | | ...and extensive bibliography of works in the language published before... | | | ...no plans at present to provide American sign language interpretation for... |
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http://travel.synabu.com/cities/S/San_Marino,_San_Marino.html
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| | Corsica: History |
| | Beginning in the 1990s the roles of true nationalists and of criminal gangs appeared to blur. | | | In 2001, France's parliament voted to give the island's regional parliament power to amend some national legislation and regulations and to permit the Corsican language to be taught in schools, but the amending of national laws by regional parliaments was declared unconstitutional. | | | In 2003, after constitutional amendments permitting greater local autonomy were approved, a referendum on autonomy was held, but Corsican voters narrowly defeated it. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0857585.html
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| | News From France |
| | MAlthough French is the official language of Corsica, a large number of Corsicans speak Corsican or Corsu. | | | Corsica was the first French département liberated in World War II. | | | Corsicans will often speak the language interspersed with French. |
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http://www.info-france-usa.org/publi/nff/0206/reg.htm
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| | Corsican language |
| | 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. | | | This substratum words are sometimes considered as close to ancient Sardian language spoken at Sardinia. | | | The classification which dominated in Soviet linguistics some decades ago, which considered Corsican a Central Italian dialect close to Roman, Toscanian and others, is now believed as wrong. |
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http://indoeuro.bizland.com/tree/ital/corsican.html
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| | The Christian Science Monitor csmonitor.com |
| | Chevènement has focused his criticism on the way the Corsican assembly would eventually be allowed to modify some national legislation even against the French parliament's will. | | | But the island's main armed separatist groups, which united for the first time earlier this month, say they are sticking to their eight-month cease-fire, and that they still support the agreement that Corsican nationalists reached with the French government last month. | | | This partial devolution of legislative authority, he worries, would undermine national sovereignty. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/getasciiarchive?script/2000/08/25/p7s1.txt
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| | Meractor Media |
| | Magazines such as A Fiara*, U Ribombu* and Arritti* are closely linked to political organisations while others such as A Pian d'Avretu* and Agora* deal with cultural and Corsican life in general. | | | According to a survey carried out in 1982, 96% of the island's inhabitants of Corsican origin (about 170,000 people or 70% of the total population) understand Corsican and 86% regularly speak the language. | | | 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. |
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http://www.aber.ac.uk/~merwww/english/lang/corsican.htm
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| | Language Museum - Corsican |
| | Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. | | | Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. |
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http://www.language-museum.com/c/corsican.htm
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| | Ethnologue 14 report for language code:COI |
| | Corsican has been recognized as a separate language by the French government. | | | Corsican is in the Tuscan group of Italian varieties. | | | Bonifacio on the southern tip of the island has 78% lexical similarity (highest) with Bastia at extreme north. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=COI
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| | I Muvrini: self-titled - PopMatters Music Review |
| | As with all of Jean-François' songs, "Vogliu" is a message vibrant with his feelings, communicating his love for his homeland, the Corsican people, and his love for humanity. | | | This is evident not only in the language in which they sing, but in their singing style. | | | Unfortunately, this release does not have on it any of the group's traditional polyphonic songs. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/i/imuvrini-st.shtml
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| | Corsican proverbs - Wikiquote |
| | A selection of Corsican proverbs, some of which had been previously unreleased. | | | A language silenced is a people who die. | | | When possible, the English translations are closer to Corsican than to the French translations, which are given for reference only. |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Corsican_proverbs
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| | Ladin language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | 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). | | | 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) |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/L/La/Ladin_language.htm
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| | EDU2 : Level 4 |
| | A link to another page on albanian language | | | Wayne State University, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures Home Page |
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http://www.my-edu2.com/EDU/langua3.htm
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