Stateless nations and countries in Europe
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Aosta Valley
Basque Country
Brittany
Catalan Countries
Cornwall
Corsica
Faroe Islands
Flanders
Friesland
Galicia
North of Ireland
Occitania
Sami People
Sardinia
Scotland
South Tyrol
WalesStateless nations and countries outside Europe
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Kurdistan
Quebec
ROBIN FARRAR, THE WELSH BASQUE-SPEAKER: “The State maintained the ban on the Welsh language as long as it was the hegemonic language”.
Welshman Robin Farrar (Bangor, Wales, 1985) lives among us, in the village of Bidarrai, in Lower Navarre. He came to the Basque Country in 2023, to improve his knowledge of…
CATALONIA: WORRYING DATA FROM THE LATEST SOCIOLINGUISTIC SURVEY
DAVID VALLS Linguist and Catalan teacher. Abstract: In this article, Catalan linguist David Valls analyses the data from the latest Catalan sociolinguistic survey, published at the beginning of 2025. These…
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE KURDS UNDER SYRIAN DOMINATION?
Kurdistan is the largest stateless nation in the world, a nation divided between four states: Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The Kurds have some accepted autonomy in Iraq, but not…
THE CORSICAN STATUTE OF AUTONOMY, WAITING
Most of the Corsican nationalist parties have long been seeking an autonomy statute for the island. Except for the most radical independentists, who are not satisfied with a statute, the…
THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE OF 1923
In our group Naziogintza we have lamented more than once that we Basques know very little about our history, including our recent history. Therefore, some historical episodes of great importance…
NATIONALIST TRADE UNIONS IN THE STATELESS NATIONS OF EUROPE
Various agencies play an important role in a process of national liberation: political parties, popular movements, cultural agents and, of course, trade unions. It is difficult to imagine a process…
JORDI MARTI MONLLAU, CATALAN PHILOSOPHER AND LINGUIST: “Independence needs to be an instrument for the nation’s survival”
Jordi Martí Monllau (Tortosa, 1967) is no doubt one of the thinkers who has come up with the clearest thought on the Catalan nation and its language. Philosopher and linguist,…
SOUTH TYROL AND AOSTA VALLEY: DIFFERENT EVOLUTION OF THEIR OWN LANGUAGES
There are two small and mountainous nations under Italian rule in the north of that state: South Tyrol and Aosta Valley. These two territories have a special political status, a …
SITUATION OF THE BRETON LANGUAGE IN SCHOOL AND SOCIETY
DR. GEOFFREY ROGER University of London Institute in Paris. Brittany is home to two different languages in addition to French, i.e. Breton and Gallo. The former is a Celtic language,…
IRISH, FOR THE FIRST TIME AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IN NORTHERN IRELAND
On December 6, 2022, one of the historic demands of the republican movement in Northern Ireland was fulfilled: from that date Ireland’s own language has become official, for the first…
