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House speaker for Hungarian education to Romania's Csangos |
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Tuesday, 06 November 2007 |
Budapest, November 6 (MTI) - Hungary's Speaker of Parliament
Katalin Szili will seek assistance from her Romanian counterpart to
provide Hungarian-speaking Csango children in Romania with
Hungarian-language education, Szili told reporters on Tuesday.
The Csangos, a Roman Catholic community which speaks an ancient
dialect of Hungarian, number about 60,000 in north-eastern Romania.
Szili, speaking after a meeting with representatives of ethnic
Hungarian organisations in north-east Romania, said that only about
10 percent of the children of the ethnic Hungarian community in the
area have access to schools where lessons are taught in Hungarian.
She said she would ask her Romanian counterpart to help increase
that ratio.
"We need to find a European way to resolve the issue," Szili
added.
Adrian Solomon, head of the federation of ethnic Hungarians
outside the Carpathian Basin, said that some 1,400 children were
taught Hungarian at school, while 9,000 others spoke a Hungarian
dialect at home, but had no access to Hungarian education, mainly
because of a lack of teachers.
In 2007, the Hungarian government contributed 56 million forints
(224,000 euros) to educational and cultural programmes in the area
east of the Carpathians.
At the press conference, Szili announced that she would visit
the region in the spring of next year.
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