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• targeting federal funding and soft taxation of both governmental
and non-governmental programmes for language preservation and
development;
• granting state or official status to the largest minority languages either
at the national level, or within regions densely inhabited by speakers
of those languages; whenever possible, language equality must be
affirmed in law;
• affirming a given minority language’s official status in the records
of government and municipal authorities: using the language in
governmental work, publishing federal and republican legal acts in it
(and guaranteeing their equal legal force), and granting the language
equal standing with the principal state language during elections,
referendums and industrial, office and administrative activities;
• creating official document databases in the language;
• establishing councils on language policy within central and/or
regional governments, and determining their rights and duties;
• guaranteeing social, economic and legal protection of the language in
legislative, executive and judicial bodies;
• providing material incentives for experts to use both national and
minority languages in their work;
• signing (or lobbying for signing) and ratifying international acts
promoting multilingualism;
• promoting ethnic entities’ interest in the development of their
languages;
• establishing targeted regional programmes to preserve culture and
language;
• helping and legally assisting the development of the language’s body of
literature through financial and other support of book publication and
media dissemination, particularly that which is oriented to children
and youth;
• forming and implementing strategies and programmes promoting
reading in the native language;
• partnering with ethnic cultural associations outside the
administrative territorial boundaries that are historically densely
populated with members of the given ethnie;
• supporting libraries, museums, archives and other cultural agencies in
the preservation and development of minority cultures and languages;
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