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My name is Víctor, I'm from Oviedo,
I speak Asturian,
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which is a minoritized language
in the north of Spain.
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Asturian is currently
in a situation...
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in which it is not an official language,
and there are many people
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who are working for it
to be official in the future.
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As I've said, Asturian
is not an official language,
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it's only recognized
in article 4
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of our Statute of Autonomy,
where its protection is recognized.
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Later, in 1998,
a law was passed, which is known as
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'Law of use and promotion
of Bable/Asturian',
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which regulates a bit more
the use of our language
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and guarantees, in some way,
its presence in education
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and in the media,
for example.
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This is an insufficient law,
although it has been useful
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for [Asturian] to enter in the education system,
and there are more and more students
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who choose it as a subjetc.
But we do find
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some obstacles
in the system.
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I mean, from secondary education
and beyond, students do not choose
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Asturian because they don't see any utility,
they don't consider that language to be useful,
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and in the years before university
and then in the university,
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the presence of Asturian is
meagre, you know?
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As for the mass media,
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Asturias has a public TV,
the TPA, and when...
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it was created, it had only one
program in Asturian, and it was about...
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recording people from
different villages,
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and it was mainly centered
in orality,
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in the Asturian's linguistic
diversity.
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It didn't make it any easier for people
to consider Asturian as anunitarian language.
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What we as a society claim,
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-we who are worried and
alarmed...
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about the situation of the language-
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is that there are news and
sports broadcasts [in Asturian],
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at least. I mean, something that
people actively look for and, let's say,
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consolidates the variety
and strength of the language, right?
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The TPA as well,
from time to time,
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broadcasts some film
dubbed in Asturian...
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We're making progress little by little,
but what has been made so far
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is not enough.
I've personally been working since 2005
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for the defense of Asturian,
making it visible...
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from my humble position, the
situation of Asturian and also...
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little by little, with the aid of Internet,
with a blog, a personal blog...
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in which I wrote my opinions and uploaded some
some videos of demonstrations for Asturian...
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I was associated to various organizations.
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Afterwards, in 2006 I started
to work on the Asturian Wikipedia,
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because I thought it was essential
for Asturian to be present on the Internet,
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