Join the Arqus Day on Minorised/Minority Languages!

The School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Minho (Portugal) will host the Arqus Day on Minorised/Minority Languages on 17 April, an event dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of linguistic diversity across Europe.

The initiative, organised by the bottom-up project “Beyond majority languages: research dissemination and teaching promotion of minority and minoritised languages in Europe”, was funded by the Arqus Innovation Fund 2024. The event aims to foster reflection on the status, teaching and revitalisation of minority languages, bringing together researchers and educators working in different linguistic contexts.

The event programme includes the following lectures:

• “Is Galician a minoritised form of Portuguese?” by Fernando Groba Bouzaanother
• “A brief introduction to Guinea-Bissau Creole” by Alfredo da Silva and Domingos da Silva
• “Mirandese: the current state of affairs and pathways to linguistic vitality” by Cláudia Martins and Joana Aguiar