Loading ...Corsican leaders decry ban on use of local language in island’s parliament
Corsican pro-autonomy politicians were up in arms on Friday after a court banned the use of the Corsican language in the island’s local parliament.
Based on France’s constitution, a court in the Corsican city of Bastia ruled on Thursday that French was the only language allowed in the exercise of public office.
Corsican, which is close to standard Italian and has about 150,000 native speakers, is considered by the UN’s cultural organisation UNESCO to be in danger of becoming extinct.