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The Nordic Language Convention is a convention
Treaty

A Treaty is an agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely states and international organizations. A Treaty may also be known as: agreement, protocol, covenant, convention, exchange of letters, etc....
 of linguistic rights
Linguistic rights

Linguistic rights are the human rights and civil rights concerning the individual and collective right to choose the language or languages for communicating in a private or public atmosphere, regardless ethnicity or nationality or the number of the speakers of a language in a given territory....
 which came into force in March 1, 1987, under the auspices of the Nordic Council
Nordic Council

The Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers is a partially dormant intergovernmental forum for co-operation between the Nordic countries....
. Under the Convention, citizens of the Nordic countries
Nordic countries

File:Location Nordic Council.svgThe Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and far northeastern North America, called the Nordic region, consisting of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and ?land....
 have the opportunity to use their native language when interacting with official bodies in other Nordic countries without being liable to any interpretation
Interpretation

An interpretation is an explanation of the meaning of some Object of attention. It also refers to making ideas more understanding, including translation....
 or translation
Translation

Translation is the hermeneutics of the Meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an Dynamic and formal equivalence text, likewise called a "translation," that communicates the same message in another language....
 costs. The Convention covers health care, social security, tax, school, and employment authorities, the police and courts.






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The Nordic Language Convention is a convention
Treaty

A Treaty is an agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely states and international organizations. A Treaty may also be known as: agreement, protocol, covenant, convention, exchange of letters, etc....
 of linguistic rights
Linguistic rights

Linguistic rights are the human rights and civil rights concerning the individual and collective right to choose the language or languages for communicating in a private or public atmosphere, regardless ethnicity or nationality or the number of the speakers of a language in a given territory....
 which came into force in March 1, 1987, under the auspices of the Nordic Council
Nordic Council

The Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers is a partially dormant intergovernmental forum for co-operation between the Nordic countries....
. Under the Convention, citizens of the Nordic countries
Nordic countries

File:Location Nordic Council.svgThe Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and far northeastern North America, called the Nordic region, consisting of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and ?land....
 have the opportunity to use their native language when interacting with official bodies in other Nordic countries without being liable to any interpretation
Interpretation

An interpretation is an explanation of the meaning of some Object of attention. It also refers to making ideas more understanding, including translation....
 or translation
Translation

Translation is the hermeneutics of the Meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an Dynamic and formal equivalence text, likewise called a "translation," that communicates the same message in another language....
 costs. The Convention covers health care, social security, tax, school, and employment authorities, the police and courts. The languages included are Swedish
Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....
, Danish
Danish language

Danish is one of the North Germanic languages , a sub-group of the Germanic languages branch of the Indo-European languages. It is spoken by around 6 million people, mainly in Denmark; the language is also used by the 50,000 Danes in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany where it holds the status of minority language....
, Norwegian
Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic languages language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in the United States of America, especially in the central northern states....
, Finnish
Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
 and Icelandic
Icelandic language

Icelandic is a North Germanic languages, the language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese language and Norwegian dialects such as Telemark dialect and Sognam?l....
.

The Convention is not very well known and is mostly a recommendation. The countries have committed themselves to providing services in various languages, but citizens have no absolute rights except for criminal and court matters. The Convention does not automatically require authorities to provide services in another language but a citizen must demand an interpreter. Civil servants in official institutions are often unaware of the regulations on interpreting and translating and neglect to provide these services when requested. Furthermore, the convention excludes minority language
Minority language

A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a country. Such people are termed linguistic minorities. With a total number of 193 sovereign states recognized internationally and an estimated number of roughly 5,000 to 7,000 List of languages by name spoken worldwide, it follows that the vast majority of la...
s, like Faroese
Faroese language

Faroese , often also spelled Faeroese , is a West Nordic or West Scandinavian language spoken by 48,000 people in the Faroe Islands and about 12,000 Faroese people in Denmark....
, Kalaallisut
Kalaallisut language

The Greenlandic language is an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken by most people in Greenland. It is closely related to the Inuit languages in Canada, such as Inuktitut....
, Romany
Romany

Romany relates or may refer to:*The Romani people, also known as Gypsies*Romani language or Romany language, the language of the Romani people...
 and Sami
SAMI

SAMI is a Microsoft accessibility initiative released in 1998. The structured markup language is designed to simplify creating captions for media playback on a PC, i.e....
, and immigrant languages. English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 has also assumed an increasingly prominent role in interaction between Nordic citizens.

See also

  • Nordic Council
    Nordic Council

    The Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers is a partially dormant intergovernmental forum for co-operation between the Nordic countries....
  • Linguistic rights
    Linguistic rights

    Linguistic rights are the human rights and civil rights concerning the individual and collective right to choose the language or languages for communicating in a private or public atmosphere, regardless ethnicity or nationality or the number of the speakers of a language in a given territory....


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