LATIN UNION


The 'Latin Union' is an international organization of nations that use a Romance language. Its aim is to protect, project, and promote the common heritage and unifying identities of the Latin, and Latin-influenced, world. It was created in 1954 and it has existed as a functional institution since 1983. Since that time its member states have risen from 12 to 37, and its membership now covers all parts of the world.
The official names of the Latin Union are ''Union Latine'' in French, ''Unione Latina'' in Italian, ''União Latina'' in Portuguese, ''Uniunea Latină'' in Romanian, ''Unión Latina'' in Spanish and ''Unió Llatina'' in Catalan.

Contents
Criteria
Member states
Official languages
Permanent observers
See also
External links

Criteria


According to the Latin Union's website, membership is open to any nation that meets the following criteria:

Linguistic criteria


★ Official language derived from Latin


★ Latin-derived language used in education


★ Latin-derived language commonly used in the mass media or in daily life

★ Linguistic/cultural criteria


★ Existence of significant literature in a Latin-derived language


Press and publication in Latin-derived language


Television with a strong proportion of the programming in a Latin-derived language


Radio widely broadcast in a Latin-derived language

★ Cultural criteria


★ Direct or indirect inheritance of the legacy of Ancient Rome, to which the state remains faithful and which it perpetuates mainly through the education of Latin


Cultural education of Latin-derived foreign languages


★ Interchanges with other Latin countries


★ Societal organization, particularly in the legal plane, based on respect for fundamental liberties, the general principles of human rights and democracy, tolerance and freedom of religion.

Member states


Members of the Latin Union:

The Latin Union currently has members from all the continents, if territorial claims of Chile and France to Antarctica are valid (listed by the Romance language that is spoken there):

★ 'Catalan (Català)'




★ 'French (Français)'
















★ 'Italian (Italiano)'







★ 'Portuguese (Português)'

























★ 'Romanian (Română)'







★ 'Spanish (Castellano, Español)'

























































Official languages


The official languages of the Latin Union are Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Romanian. The middle four are used as working languages. All the texts of general diffusion are translated into these four languages, with some also going into Catalan and Romanian. The logo of Latin Union has recently included the Catalan version of the name (''Unió Llatina''), since Andorra is now a member and Catalan is the only official language in that state.

Permanent observers



Argentina

Vatican City

border
Sovereign Military Order of Malta

See also



Community of Portuguese Language Countries

Interlingua

La Francophonie

Latin Africa

Latin America

Latin Asia

Latin Europe

Latin Monetary Union

Organization of Ibero-American States

Romance languages

External links



Official site

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