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Institutions of primary, secondary and higher education undoubtedly play a
crucial role in multilingualism promotion. They should cooperate with the
legislative and executive bodies to support and develop minority languages.
Research institutions can perform scientific and applied research in the field
thus providing the scientific and theoretical basis for governments and other
social institutions to support languages.
Memory institutions aim at collecting, storing, and promoting all major
evidences of the history of a given ethnic group, ensuring their availability
to the public as well as developing various methods and forms of providing
access to cultural heritage, including written.
Media can also contribute to supporting and improving the status of minority
languages serving as a tool for the exchange of spiritual values and the
promotion of cultural and linguistic diversity.
Book publishing and book trade can also do a lot to support multilingualism,
since a language’s lack of access to the book publishing sphere can pose a
threat of its speakers to be largely excluded from the intellectual life of the
community.
Various projects on the creation of multimedia content in minority languages
can be initiated and implemented by all the above mentioned institutions in
collaboration with other institutions of culture, science and education.
We are all aware of the fact that developing linguistic and cultural diversity
in cyberspace grants us an opportunity to preserve languages and cultures, to
expand domains of use of under resourced national languages. That is why it
is extremely important to understand the problem clearly and define the set
of actions to be taken to study, develop, use and promote languages.
It’s not only political measures that is required. Development of legal norms
and standards is fundamental, however multilingualism support cannot be
limited to the adoption of regulations or solving technical problems. All
stakeholders should be aware of the burning challenges as well as possible
solutions. This reqires developing specific guidelines for each institution.
Of course, promoting best practice of leading experts in a particular field is
important in this regard.
Participants of activities aimed at multilingualism preservation should be
provided with information on the current situation in the field, on the state
of the art in their specific professional area in the country and the world. It is
important to analyze the possibilities of potential actors, as this will help to
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