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Interestingly it's now quite similar in number to Catalan, which after all these years is still not an official EU language despite being spoken by ~10M people
by jobigoud 6y ago
Interestingly it's now quite similar in number to Catalan, which after all these years is still not an official EU language despite being spoken by ~10M people (~4M natively) in multiple countries.
- happy_path 6y agoAll Spaniards can speak Spanish according to Spanish Constitution. Thus, Catalan is a regional language. If the EU should have to provide translations and material in each of the regional languages, the cost of coding laws would be quite a bit high.
- estaseuropano 6y agoThere's already 24 official languages: https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-languages_en https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-languages_en not even those get all translations: https://europa.eu/european-union/abouteuropa/language-policy_en https://europa.eu/european-union/abouteuropa/language-policy... And cost per page is around 80€ https://slator.com/industry-news/eur-82-per-page-inside-eu-translation-centres-2018-budget/ https://slator.com/industry-news/eur-82-per-page-inside-eu-t... Already 2006 translation cost was close to 1bn/year, must be much more now... https://euobserver.com/news/21459 https://euobserver.com/news/21459