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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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