Ordinance
on the National Languages and Understanding between the Linguistic Communities
(Languages Ordinance, LangO)

¹ In or­der to pro­mote pluri­lin­gual­ism in can­ton­al and com­mun­al au­thor­it­ies and ad­min­is­tra­tions, pluri­lin­gual can­tons shall be gran­ted fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for per­form­ing their spe­cif­ic tasks, and in par­tic­u­lar for:²⁶

a.

trans­la­tion and ter­min­o­logy ser­vices for com­mu­nic­a­tion with­in and between can­tons;

b.²⁷

lan­guage and tech­nic­al train­ing and con­tinu­ing pro­fes­sion­al de­vel­op­ment for the ad­min­is­trat­ive per­son­nel in re­la­tion to pluri­lin­gual­ism mat­ters;

c.

pro­jects for rais­ing pub­lic aware­ness of pluri­lin­gual­ism.

² Fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for the pro­mo­tion of pluri­lin­gual­ism in the area of edu­ca­tion shall be gran­ted to the pluri­lin­gual can­tons for per­form­ing their spe­cif­ic tasks, and in par­tic­u­lar for:

a.

cre­at­ing di­dact­ic aids for lan­guage teach­ing;

b.

lan­guage train­ing and con­tinu­ing pro­fes­sion­al de­vel­op­ment for teach­ers;

c.

pro­jects to pro­mote the ac­quis­i­tion of a na­tion­al lan­guage through bi­lin­gual in­struc­tion at all levels of edu­ca­tion;

d.

pro­jects to pro­mote the at­tend­ance of classes in an­oth­er of­fi­cial lan­guage of the can­ton at all levels of edu­ca­tion;

e.²⁸

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