Rotterdam’s Poetry International Festival 2003 had a special programme to highlight minority languages, such as Welsh, Mayan, Corsican and Livonian. This programme features interviews with the Welsh and Livonian poets. […]
Minority languages
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The Frisian language is spoken by more than 300,000 native speakers in the northern Dutch province of Friesland. Although the language was never suppressed in the manner of Gaelic in […]
Did you know that Picasso did not grow up speaking Spanish, that Richard Burton did not grow up speaking English and that Napoleon did not grow up speaking French? Nor […]