Corsican language ban stirs protest on French island
Briefly

A court in Corsica has prompted outrage by banning the use of the Corsican language in the island's local parliament.The court in the city of Bastia cited France's constitution it its ruling on Thursday that French was the only language allowed in the exercise of public office.Corsican, which is close to standard Italian and has about 150,000 native speakers, is considered by the UN's cultural organisation Unesco to be in danger of becoming extinct.
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