January 2006

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EXPOLANGUES 24th EDITION TO BE HELD IN PARIS

January 2006 - The international exhibition of foreign languages and cultures Expolangues will take place in Paris from 18th to 21st of January. This is the 24th edition of the fair, which has as its main objective to promote languages and cultures, develop international communication and defence multilingualism.

In consistency with the organizers’ policy of inviting a state instead of welcoming languages or cultures, this year the guest of honour is Germany. However, about sixty languages from twenty different countries will also be represented in more than 200 stalls. Publishers, language schools, programmers of language study holidays, interpreters and other institutions coming from countries with dominant languages will be broadly represented, and the entire programme of conferences scheduled will be devoted to matters of their interest. In spite of this, exhibitors of minoritised and minority languages will be also present in Paris. Several institutions such as Unioun Prouvençalo representing Occitan, Ofis ar Brezhoneg for Breton, Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics and Institut Ramon Llull for Catalan, the Basque government, the language policy board of the Galician government, etc. have confirmed their attendance. Besides, the programmers have included introductory sessions in some least taught languages such as Basque, Welsh, Galician, Catalan, Romanian and Lithuanian in the “Language Kiosc” section.

Expolangues, with more than 20,000 visitors and 11.000 participants, has become a leading language-sector exhibition in the last years.