“the right to use

a regional or minority language

in private and public life

is an inalienable right”

DATABASE FOR
THE EUROPEAN CHARTER FOR
REGIONAL OR MINORITY LANGUAGES

The Charter

- the text

- translations

- as applied to languages

- the monitoring process

- basic data

- timeline

The Database

- by language

- by provision

- by State Party

Home

Maintained by the

Public Foundation for European Comparative Minority Research

Supported by the

Council of Europe and the

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Hungary

Member States of the Council of Europe and the Charter

States that have signed and ratified the Charter (24 States)

▪ Armenia	▪ Netherlands
▪ Austria	▪ Norway
▪ Croatia	▪ Poland
▪ Cyprus	▪ Romania
▪ Czech Republic	▪ Serbia
▪ Denmark	▪ Slovakia
▪ Finland	▪ Slovenia
▪ Germany	▪ Spain
▪ Hungary	▪ Sweden
▪ Liechtenstein	▪ Switzerland
▪ Luxembourg	▪ Ukraine
▪ Montenegro	▪ United Kingdom

States that have signed, but not yet ratified the Charter (9 States)

▪ Azerbaijan	▪ FYR Macedonia
▪ Bosnia and Herzegovina	▪ Malta
▪ France	▪ Moldova
▪ Iceland	▪ Russia
▪ Italy

States that neither signed nor ratified the Charter (14 States)

▪ Albania	▪ Ireland
▪ Andorra	▪ Latvia
▪ Belgium	▪ Lithuania
▪ Bulgaria	▪ Monaco
▪ Estonia	▪ Portugal
▪ Georgia	▪ San Marino
▪ Greece	▪ Turkey

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