From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/10/2007 3:55 AM
Abkhazia has language revolution
Sukhum/Agency Caucasus - The Abkhazian language was accorded on Friday the status of an official language.
Adopted on November 14 in the Abkhazian parliament, the new law aims at providing anything necessary to render fully function Abkhazian as an official language, to make it available widely for public communication and to help develop it.
*All public institutions as well as organizations will go with Abkhazian as the standard language of communication.
* The state will ensure that all ethnic groups in Abkhazia will have the freedom to use their own languages.
* Public officers, deputies and local authorities must have proficiency in the official language.
* The state will ensure that the official language is taught at schools, developed and rendered functional, and preserved socially, economically, legally and politically.
* The official language will get financial support with the help of certain programs.
* Educational institutions will adopt an education system in Abkhazian; Abkhazian philologists will emerge to create scientific teams of pedagogy. Financial support will be available for future publications of the teaching material of Abkhazian as the official language.
* The state will supply all Abkhazians with the opportunity to learn the official language.
* Abkhazian will become the medium of instruction. The Abkhazian Republic will assure its citizens the ease of using Russian as the second medium of instruction. All public as well as private institutions of education available in the Republic of Abkhazia will have Avbkhazian taught to students.
* Graduates of middle school, high school, vocational schools and universities will take a test in the official language.
* Scientific studies will be defended either in Abkhazian or Russian.
* Senior officials of the government will have Abkhazian as the official language of communication, while both Abkhazian and Russian will be available as the standard languages. Bills and motions will be submitted to the parliament both in Abkhazian and Russian.
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