Friesian speakers lobby for equal rights

Thursday 02 October 2008

Friesian speakers lobbied parliament yesterday in an effort to get their language included in the constitution, reports the Volkskrant.

A committee is currently looking into whether Dutch should be enshrined in the constitution as the official language of the Netherlands and Friesian speakers want equal rights.

Friesian has been a compulsory primary school subject in the northern province of Friesland since 1980, says the paper.

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