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Digitalisation could preserve minority languages

Digitalisation could save minority languages despite the English language dominating online - Euractiv.com

Czech MEP Michaela Sojdrová, who sits in Parliament’s Culture Committee, told EURACTIV in a recent interview that digitalisation offers new communication platforms for minority languages, which can aid their long-term preservation.

She also stressed that protecting minority cultures and languages is a way of enabling their integration in society.

“We should be sensitive towards the minorities. We should help preserve their culture and language while enabling them to integrate into majority society,” Sojdrová said.

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