INTRODUCTION

Goals of the AMARAUNA World Languages Network

Following the background of the project, these are the goals of AMARAUNA:

• Circulation. One of the aims is to spread the heritage of the languages of the world through specialized information and to sensitize the public opinion about the importance of keeping this heritage. It is important to circulate the World Languages Review, done by the UNESCO centre of Euskal Herria, to let people know about the results and to promote the review so that the information is used among the experts.
  At the same time, to give other cultures the chance of having materials and projects that were done in other countries for the protection of threaten languages.
  
  
• Knowledge. AMARAUNA wants to deepen and strengthen the knowledge of the situation of the minority language communities and functional and scientific methods gathered these last years will be used for this purpose. This way, apart from the informants of the review it will gather information of other linguistic communities since it is important to promote the international cooperation in order to foment the linguistic rights and initiatives for the linguistic recuperation. We have to amplify the data-base so that new reviews can be written once we have updated information.
  
  
• Cooperation. It will promote the relation between institutions that are part of the group of sensitizing of linguistic heritage.
  
  
• Didactics. The aim is to prepare didactic material with information of linguistic diversity in order to distribute it among Basque schools and specific materials for primary and secondary grades.
  
  
• Promote the Basque Country internationally. The Basque Country should divulgate internationally among the public opinion, the knowledge about the minority languages and the experience in initiatives for the linguistic recuperation.