French say ‘non’ to official status for regional tongues</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="French say ‘non’ to official status for regional tongues"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="French,say,‘non’,to,official,status,for,regional,tongues"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">23-06-2008</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>French say ‘non’ to official status for regional tongues</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Paris, France (Herald): A bid to inscribe Breton and other regional languages in the French constitution has been thwarted after the Académie Française - the elite body that guards over French culture - ruled that it was a threat to national unity. […] It would be the first time that Breton, Catalan, Basque, Occitan, Corsican and other minority tongues received official status, after centuries in which they have been at best neglected and at worst actively suppressed. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.2356731.0.0.php " target="blank">www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.2356731.0.0.php </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show