Äike
11-04-2010, 06:04 PM
60-Million-Euro Estonian Language Survival Roadmap Awaits Approval (http://news.err.ee/politics/8c1fefb2-624b-4834-b2b6-bf12d4ebe89a)
The Minister of Education will next week present the cabinet with a seven-year strategy for developing the Estonian language, with an estimated cost of 60 million euros.
"If we are not able to realize this strategy, the survival of the Estonian language cannot be taken for granted. On the contrary, its extinction will become more probable," Jüri Valge, language policy counselor to the Ministry of Education and one of the authors of the document told Eesti Päevaleht.
"The bottom line objective of the plan is to keep Estonian up to par so that it can also be used in the year 2050," Valge said. "We now have to see that young people won't switch over to English but retain a motivation to study and communicate in Estonian."
The Minister of Education will next week present the cabinet with a seven-year strategy for developing the Estonian language, with an estimated cost of 60 million euros.
"If we are not able to realize this strategy, the survival of the Estonian language cannot be taken for granted. On the contrary, its extinction will become more probable," Jüri Valge, language policy counselor to the Ministry of Education and one of the authors of the document told Eesti Päevaleht.
"The bottom line objective of the plan is to keep Estonian up to par so that it can also be used in the year 2050," Valge said. "We now have to see that young people won't switch over to English but retain a motivation to study and communicate in Estonian."