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Abstract
In this paper, I propose
| - | to trace the history of regional languages in France, | ||||
| - | to describe the present state of these languages (Alsacien, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Flemish, Occitan), | ||||
| - | to analyse the common problems encountered by speakers of these languages (inadequacies of La Loi Deixonne, absence until 1985 of any state‐recognised certificate in the teaching of regional languages, lack of standardisation within families of dialects, transcription difficulties, dearth of teaching material, lack of time devoted to regional languages in the media), | ||||
| - | to discuss the range of solutions proposed by individuals and voluntary organisations to these difficulties (establishment of private, regional language‐speaking nursery schools, development of a corpus of teaching material). | ||||
| - | to plot the usage of French versus regional languages in a series of oppositions : urban/rural, ‘bourgeois/paysan’ (townsperson/country person), employer/employee, young/old, written/oral, public/private). | ||||
| - | to evoke the recent renewal of interest in regional languages which is due partly to a quest for identity and partly to a realisation that French and the French identity are not threatened by the existence of regional languages. | ||||