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• initiation and organization of theoretical and applied conferences
addressing the various aspects of minority language preservation and
development;
• establishment of research, education and information centres of
minority languages and cultures, aimed at conducting research and
training for relevant experts;
• popularization of minority languages and cultures;
• elaboration of national reading promotion programmes, in particular
for minority languages, in cooperation with libraries, educational
institutions, media outlets, and book publishers/traders;
• elaboration of best practices guidelines for relevant offices and
organisations, charged with the task of languages and cultures support;
• publication of bilingual dictionaries that include audio recordings of
words;
• establishment of terminology and orthography commissions;
• creation of text corpora and phonetic databases;
• linguistic and folklore field studies and expeditions;
• establishment of centralised archives, including electronic archives,
for minority languages;
• acquisition of private archives of researchers and community activists
(including foreign) engaged in minority language support, and
entrusting those archives to state memory institutions;
• establishment of clear standards and guidelines for recording and
representing texts, alphabets and graphic systems for non-literate
languages – this is of particular importance for oral languages and
languages having recently acquired a graphic system;
• establishment of a unified literary language, if absent;
• documentation of minority languages;
• research and development of operating systems, search engines and
information scanning systems; and
• development of fonts in cooperation with relevant experts.
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