15:06 18.12.2012

Hungarian language becomes regional in Zakarpattia region's district

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Hungarian language has been declared a regional language on the territory of Vynohradivsky district in Zakarpattia region.

This decision was approved at the session of Vynohradivsky District Council on Tuesday, according to the Zakarpattia online publication.

Two Hungarian parties - the Party of Hungarians of Ukraine and the Democratic Party of Hungarians of Ukraine - initiated the consideration of the issue. Only one deputy voted against the proposal. Members of the Yedyny Tsentr Party, which earlier opposed the language law, unanimously supported the draft instruction.

From now on, all signs in the district will be translated into Hungarian.

The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, passed the bill on the principles of the state language policy initiated by the Regions Party on July 3, 2012.

On August 8, 2012 Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych signed the bill into law and instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to form a working group for the development of proposals to improve language legislation in Ukraine.

The law took effect on August 10. According to it, a language may be provided with the status of a regional language if the percentage of people considering it their native language exceeds 10% of the total population of the region.

Odesa regional and city councils, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhia, Sevastopol, Dnipropetrovsk, and Luhansk city councils, Krasny Luch Town Council (Luhansk region), Zaporizhia, Donetsk, Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Dnipropetrovsk regional councils have declared Russian a regional language on their territories.

Hungarian was also declared a regional language in Berehove (Zakarpattia region) and in Berehove district. Moldovan was declared a regional language in Tarasivtsi in Chernivtsi region.

Romanian was declared a regional language in the Village of Bila Tserkva (Biserica Alba in Romanian) in Rakhiv district, Zakarpattia region.

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