{"id":26833,"date":"2025-01-23T10:35:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T09:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/?p=26833"},"modified":"2025-01-23T10:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T09:35:42","slug":"slovakia-and-minority-languages-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/slovakia-and-minority-languages-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia and Minority Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Slovak Act on the Use of Languages \u200b\u200bof National Minorities permits the use of the minority language in official relations and at council meetings. In practise, this is not the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One example is the meeting of the city council in Ve\u013ek\u00e9 Kapu\u0161any, a town which, according to the 2021 census, \u00a0has 8,799 inhabitants, of which 32.9% of Slovaks, 53% of Hungarians, and 4.4% of Roma. There are probably more Roma, but they often declare themselves as Hungarians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last December the council decided to increase kindergarten fees. The debate was partly in Slovak, and partly in Hungarian. No translations provided\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Debatovanie poslancov v ma\u010far\u010dine netlmo\u010dili. Budeme to rie\u0161i\u0165, uis\u0165uje prim\u00e1tor. In: Korzar. 22.01.2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/dolnyzemplin.korzar.sme.sk\/c\/23438343\/debatovanie-poslancov-v-madarcine-netlmocili-budeme-to-riesit-uistuje-primator.html\">https:\/\/dolnyzemplin.korzar.sme.sk\/c\/23438343\/debatovanie-poslancov-v-madarcine-netlmocili-budeme-to-riesit-uistuje-primator.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Slovak Act on the Use of Languages \u200b\u200bof National Minorities permits the use of the minority language in official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/8982179_1200x.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,598],"tags":[672,279],"class_list":["post-26833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-eastern-europe","category-slovakia","tag-minorities","tag-romanes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/8982179_1200x.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26835,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26833\/revisions\/26835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}