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From the aspect of public policy development in the context of protection and improvement of human rights of national minorities and other minority communities the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights has a key role Minister Gjeka said at the signing of the Agreement on Digitization of the Albanian Language.Minister of Human and Minority Rights Fatmir Gjeka and Albasoft Ceo Lulezim Shishani signed today in Podgorica an Agreement on digitization of the Albanian language.In accordance with the objectives of the national strategic document the Government of Montenegro seeks to ensure the preservation of the cultural and historical heritage of minority peoples and other minority national communities their authentic political representation in the political life of Montenegro and raising the level of their awareness of their own status rights and obligations.The agreement in question is in accordance with the European Charter on Regional or Minority Languages and in order to improve respect for the principles of multiculturalism and multiethnicity as one of the goals of the Minority Policy Strategy 2019-2023 through the establishment of normative and resource-technical prerequisites for the study of minority languages.The intention of the multilateral treaty in question is to protect and advance regional and minority languages not linguistic minorities. In this regard the emphasis of the European Charter on Regional or Minority Languages is placed on the cultural dimension and the use of regional or minority languages in all aspects of the life of persons who speak it and it is aimed at promoting the use and protection of languages traditionally present and used in the territory of Europe i.e. European states.AgreementIn this context Montenegro has stipulated by the Law on ratification of the European Charter on Regional or Minority Languages that the Charter will refer to the use of Albanian and Roma languages.According to the Statistics Authority MONSTAT 5.27 of the population in Montenegro speaks Albanian. Albanian is one of the oldest Indo-European languages and the language in official use in Montenegro. Bearing in mind that language is one of the most important features of national identity through this digitization the Albanian national minority in Montenegro gets the opportunity to more easily solve challenges in its education prevent cultural assimilation improve communication with other countries in the region the overall economy and reduce communication barriers.At the initiative of the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights the Government of Montenegro has launched the digitization of the Albanian language in cooperation with the company Albasoft whose distribution will be launched by the end of this month.It is the most advanced software for the Albanian language containing a large spelling dictionary of the Albanian language in digital format over 80000 explanations of words and expressions a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms software for correcting spelling errors in ms Word software for correcting syntactic errors software for learning Albanian language etc.This software has already been established in countries in the region in North Macedonia Albania and Kosovo.The Kulla e Shqipes Albanian Kula software will be available to everyone in Montenegro and will be free of charge for users.
