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EUROMOSAIC III Presence of regional and minority languages in the New Member States EUROMOSAIC III Study (Copyright, European Commission 2004) Study commissioned by the European Commission and published
in Europa website In 1992, wishing to take stock of the situation of the various language communities in Europe, The Commission initiated a study on minority language groups in the European Union. The purpose of the study, entitled "EUROMOSAIC", was to find out about the different regional and minority languages in existence and to establish their potential for production and reproduction, and the difficulties they encounter in doing so. The study was based on the various social and institutional aspects whereby a language group emerges and reproduces itself. It comprised a series of surveys on the use of the language among a sample of eight language groups. It was possible to compare the results and identify five main language clusters. The same scientific team compiled over 50 individual reports, covering each of the regional or minority language communities identified. Each report was based on the major bibliographical sources and information supplied by a language correspondent and a number of key witnesses, who were asked by the team to improve the provisional and interim reports for their own language group. Following the 1999 enlargement, EUROMOSAIC compiled further individual reports on the regional and minority language groups of Austria, Finland and Sweden (EUROMOSAIC II). In September 2004 the extended study covering the ten new Member States of the European Union was performed (EUROMOSAIC III). The team of experts and scientists who performed the study also drafted a comparative summary (German, English, French), providing a general overview of the situation obtaining in the new Member States and a point of comparison with that obtaining in the fifteen pre-enlargement Member States. All the individual reports of each language community are available
in the Comission's webpage, as the reports outlining the general language
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