The Nordic Language Convention (Nordiska språkkonventionen) is an convention of linguistic rights which came into force in March 1, 1987, under the auspices of the Nordic Council. Under the Convention, citizens of the Nordic countries have the opportunity to use their native language when interacting with official bodies in other Nordic countries without being liable to any interpretation or translation costs. The Convention covers health care, social security, tax, school, and employment authorities, the police and courts. The languages included are Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic.^[1][2] Single European Act A treaty is a binding agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely states and international organizations. ... Linguistic rights (or language rights or linguistic human rights) are the human and civil rights concerning the individual and collective right to chose the language or languages for communicating in the private or public sphere, regardless ethnicity or nationality or the number of the speakers of a language in a... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Political map of the Nordic countries and associated islands. ... Political map of the Nordic countries and associated territories. ... Native Language Music, founded in 1996 by musicians Joe Sherbanee and Theo Bishop, is an independent adult contemporary record company based in Southern California that produces, markets, and distributes premium jazz, world, and new age music. ... Interpretation, or interpreting, is an activity that consists of establishing, either simultaneously or consecutively, oral or gestural communications between two or more speakers who are not speaking (or signing) the same language. ... Look up translate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The Convention is not very well known and is mostly a recommendation. The countries have committed themselves to providing services in various languages, but citizens have no absolute rights except for criminal and court matters.^[3][4] The Convention does not automatically require authorities to provide services in another language but a citizen must demand an interpreter.^[4] Civil servants in official institutions are often unaware of the regulations on interpreting and translating and neglect to provide this services when requested.^[5] Furthermore, the convention excludes minority languages, like Faroese, Kalaallisut, Romany and Sami, and immigrant languages.^[4][5] English has also assumed an increasingly prominent role in interaction between Nordic citizens.^[3] A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a country. ... The Kalaallisut language (also called Western Greenlandic, Greenlandic Eskimo, or Greenlandic Inuktitut) is an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken in Greenland. ... Romany (or Romani) relates to: The Roma: a people sometimes pejoratively called Gypsies. Their language Romany was the pseudonym of a broadcaster and writer of Roma descent, George Bramwell Evens. ... Sami flag The Sami People (there are other names and spellings including Sámi, Saami and Lapp) are an indigenous people of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia, covering a total area in the Nordic countries corresponding to the size of Sweden. ...

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See also

• Nordic Council
• Linguistic rights

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External links

• (Swedish) Text of the Nordic Language Convention
• Language news from Nordic Council