The Digital Linguistic Diversity (DLDP) project launched in July the first survey on the digital needs of Basques and the other three EU retail languages (Breton, Carelo and Sardinano).

This is the project in which Elhuyar collaborates, together with four other European institutions, with the aim of collecting the answers from as many Euskaldunes as possible. Since the survey was launched in July, we have collected nearly 400 responses, but we want to receive many more.The survey will be available until September 30.

The survey will also be completed by speakers of Breton, Carelí and Sardines in their respective languages. The answers received will serve to decide what is the most appropriate way for the digital development of these four languages. From there, the so-called Digital Language Survival Kit will be developed, which basically consists of a set of recommendations to revitalize the use.

The survey is the first study on the digital needs of minority language speakers. Interest groups and research agents will receive useful information about the vision that current social movements and speaking communities have in this area and about the resources they would like to develop for their language in the digital sphere.

In addition, this project will develop a roadmap for digital linguistic diversity. The goal is for this roadmap to be a kind of guide for policy makers and stakeholders to help them decide in the future what digital tools language institutions and governments should develop to achieve an effective revitalization of minority or endangered languages.

In the DLDP project, Elhuyar collaborates with:Consiglio Nacionalista delle Ricerche (Pisa, Italy); European Language Equality Network (France); Mainz University (Germany); and Asociación de Idiomas Carélicos (KKS, Finland).

For the survey to be useful, we are interested in the largest number of people being attended, so we would appreciate that they are disseminated among the Euskaldunes of our environment and that they are requested to comply.

More information about the project at: To
respond to the DLDP Survey click here: Survey