The European Day of Languages celebrates linguistic diversity on Monday 26th September. Events are planned across Europe from a conference on regional languages in Armenia to last Saturday’s debate on Cornish development.

In Belgium several events are looking at the threat to European linguistic diversity faced with the ongoing expansion of English usage. One university seminar looks at how English is becoming the sole medium for law and medical courses, the German Goethe Institute is hosting an event asking why learn any other language than  English; meanwhile Eurolang is participating in a Café Babel debate on whether the EU needs a lingua franca.

Full details about the Day can be found on the EDL site at the EDL website (Eurolang 2005).

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