The Ostana Prize – Writings in the Mother Tongue n Italian: Ostana Premio Scritture in Lingua Madre is an annual prize and cultural initiative organized by the Municipality of Ostana and by the Cultural Association Chambra d'Oc. It is dedicated to languages and to literary authors who use a "mother tongue", a present-day minority language of territorial belonging, in their works. The event began in 2008 and is held in Ostana, a municipality in the

Valle Po The Valle Po (literally "Po valley") is a valley of the Cottian Alps in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Northern Italy. Geography The valley gives rise to the longest river in Italy, the Po, before it enters the Pianura Padana (or the Plain ...

(Italy), every year at the beginning of June. It is open to the public with free admission.

Categories of Ostana Prize

Every year, the Ostana Prize assigns prizes to authors selected all over the world according to different categories, some of which were added only in the recent editions: ''International Award, National Award, Award for the Occitan language, Young Writers Award, Special Award, Translation Award, Award for Musical Composition, Film Award''. For the ''International Award'' and the ''National Award'' the organizers select authors who have used in their works, in whole or in part, one of the minority languages recognized at national and international level. Because of the geographical location of Ostana Prize in the Occitan Area (the municipality of Ostana is in fact part of the

Occitan Occitan may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the Occitania territory in parts of France, Italy, Monaco and Spain. * Something of, from, or related to the Occitania administrative region of France. * Occitan language, spoken in parts o ...

minority area in Italy) an author writing in the language is given a specific recognition. The ''Special Award'' is conferred to an author who is particularly distinguished in the defence, promotion and dissemination of a minority language in danger of extinction. The ''Translation Award'' is awarded to an author who has achieved distinction in the translation of writings to, or from, a minority language. The ''Young Writers Award'' is given to an under-40 author who has achieved distinction in the field of literature and who is engaged in the promotion of his or her mother tongue. In the 2016 edition, two awards to artistic career were added: ''The Award for Musical Composition'' which is awarded to an author who has been noteworthy in the field of composition in his or her native language, and ''The Film Award'' which is given to a filmmaker who made a cinematographic work in a minority language.

Duration of award ceremony

The Ostana Prize – Writings in Mother Tongue has a duration of three days during which the winning authors are invited by the organizers to reside in Ostana, in one of the existing facilities, and to take part in meetings, debates, video projections, readings in minority languages, musical and artistic performances, photographic exhibitions, etc.. On the last day of the event, the prizes to the individual authors are delivered.

The symbols of the Ostana Prize

The prize consists of: a glass sculpture, specially created by the Italian artist

Silvio Vigliaturo Silvio Vigliaturo (born 1949 in Acri, Cosenza) is an Italian artist. When still a child he moved to Chieri (Turin), where presently he lives and works. He is a glassfusion maestro and his technique is appreciated internationally and considered ...

with the illustration of a nightingale, symbol of Occitan culture (in reference to the song "Se chanta"), accompanied by a gold medal created by Marco Gioielli which represents the Occitan cross.

Objectives

The objectives of the Ostana Prize are: * celebrating and bringing together authors (writers, poets, musicians, filmmakers, translators) who contribute to the promotion of enduring and emerging languages with their work, * listening and making the public aware of the sound of endangered, yet eager-to-live, languages, in order to discover through these languages the histories and cultures of the people who speak them, * highlighting the value of multilingualism through the live testimonies of authors and artists from around the world.

The Writers

In the eight years of activity of the Award 48 writers have been invited; among those 8 were Occitan. The remaining 40 represented different languages.

The languages

The Ostana Prize has been awarded to representatives of minority languages such as:

Friulian language Friulian ( ) or Friulan (natively or ; ; ; ) is a Romance languages, Romance language belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance languages, Rhaeto-Romance family. Friulian is spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy and has around 600,000 speake ...

Slovene language Slovene ( or ) or Slovenian ( ; ) is a South Slavic languages, South Slavic language of the Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. Most of its 2.5 million speakers are the ...

Cimbrian language Cimbrian (, ; ; ) is any of several local Upper German varieties spoken in parts of the Italian regions of Trentino and Veneto. The speakers of the language are known as in German. Cimbrian is a Germanic language related to Bavarian most ...

Ladin language Ladin ( , ; autonym: ; ; ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Rhaeto-Romance languages, Rhaeto-Romance subgroup, mainly spoken in the Dolomites, Dolomite Mountains in Northern Italy in the provinces of South Tyrol, Trentino, an ...

Armenian language Armenian (endonym: , , ) is an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language and the sole member of the independent branch of the Armenian language family. It is the native language of the Armenians, Armenian people and the official language of ...

Sardinian language Sardinian or Sard ( , , , , or , ) is a Romance languages, Romance language spoken by the Sardinians on the Western Mediterranean island of Sardinia. The original character of the Sardinian language among the Romance idioms has long been know ...

Standard Tibetan Lhasa Tibetan or Standard Tibetan is a standardized dialect of Tibetan spoken by the people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In the traditional "three-branched" ...

Basque language Basque ( ; ) is a language spoken by Basques and other residents of the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of northern Spain and southwestern France. Basque ...

Romani language Romani ( ; also Romanes , Romany, Roma; ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani people. The largest of these are Vlax Romani language, Vlax Romani (about 500,000 speakers), Balkan Romani (600,000), and Sinte Roma ...

, Totonacan languages,

Catalan language Catalan () is a Western Romance languages, Western Romance language and is the official language of Andorra, and the official language of three autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous communities in eastern Spain: Catalonia, the Balearic I ...

Huave language Huave (also spelled Wabe) is a language isolate spoken by the indigenous Huave people on the Pacific coast of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The language is spoken in four villages on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the southeast of the state, by ...

Breton language Breton (, , ; or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic languages, Celtic language group spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France. It is the only Celtic language still widely in use on the European mainland, albei ...

Sami languages Acronyms * SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft * Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company * South African Malaria Initiative, a virtual expertise ...

Hebrew language Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a first language unti ...

Maltese language Maltese (, also or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language derived from Siculo-Arabic, late medieval Sicilian Arabic with Romance languages, Romance Stratum (linguistics), superstrata. It is the only Semitic languages, Semitic language pred ...

Corsican language Corsican (, , or , ) is a Romance languages, Romance language consisting of the Dialect continuum, continuum of the Tuscan dialect, Tuscan Italo-Dalmatian languages, Italo-Dalmatian dialects spoken on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, a Singl ...

Cheyenne language The Cheyenne language (, , informal spelling ) is the Native American language spoken by the Cheyenne people, predominantly in present-day Montana and Oklahoma, in the United States. It is part of the Algonquian language family. Like all other ...

Kurdish languages Kurdish (, , ) is a Northwestern Iranian language or group of languages spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan, namely in southeast Turkey, northern Iraq, northwest Iran, and northern Syria. It is also spoken in northeast Iran, as well a ...

Māori language Māori (; endonym: 'the Māori language', commonly shortened to ) is an Eastern Polynesian languages, Eastern Polynesian language and the language of the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand. The southernmost membe ...

Galician language Galician ( , ), also known as Galego (), is a Iberian Romance languages, Western Ibero-Romance language. Around 2.4 million people have at least some degree of competence in the language, mainly in Galicia (Spain), Galicia, an Autonomo ...

Shuar language Shuar (which literally means "people", also known by such (now derogatory) terms as Chiwaro, Jibaro, Jivaro, or Xivaro) is an indigenous language spoken by the Shuar people of Morona Santiago Province and Pastaza Province in the Ecuadorian A ...

Yoruba language Yoruba (, ; Yor. ) is a Niger–Congo languages, Niger-Congo language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in South West (Nigeria), Southwestern and Middle Belt, Central Nigeria, Benin, and parts of Togo. It is spoken by the Yoruba people. ...

Frisian languages The Frisian languages ( or ) are a closely related group of West Germanic languages, spoken by about 400,000 Frisian people, who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. The Frisian languages are the closes ...

Griko dialect Griko (endonym: /), sometimes spelled Grico, is one of the two dialects of Italiot Greek (the other being Calabrian Greek or ), spoken by Griko people in Salento, province of Lecce, Italy. Some Greek linguists consider it to be a Modern Greek ...

Occitan language Occitan (; ), also known by its native speakers as (; ), sometimes also referred to as Provençal, is a Romance language spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as Spain's Val d'Aran in Catalonia; collectively, ...

Award winners

edition 1, year 2008

22–23 November *

Max Roqueta Max Roqueta ( Argelliers, December 8, 1908 – June 22, 2005) was one of the most famous contemporary Occitan writers. A physician, he was also an activist (he had been president of the Institut d'Estudis Occitans The Institut d'Estudis Occitans (E ...

''language:

'', Special Award * Alfredo Conde ''language: Galician'', International Award * Carlo Sgorlon ''language:

Friulian Friulian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the Friuli region in northeast Italy. * Sometimes, by improper extension, something of, from, or related to the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Friuli-Venezia Giulia () is one of the 20 regions o ...

'', National Award

edition 2, year 2010

19–20 June *

Gavino Ledda Gavino Ledda (; born 30 December 1938) is an author and a scholar of the Italian language and of Sardinian. He is best known for his autobiographical work '' Padre Padrone'' (1975). Biography Early life Ledda was born in Siligo, in the Provi ...

''language: Sardinian'', Special Award *

Witi Ihimaera Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler (; born 7 February 1944) is a New Zealand author. Raised in the small town of Waituhi, he decided to become a writer as a teenager after being convinced that Māori people, Māori people were ignored or mischaracteri ...

''language:

Māori Māori or Maori can refer to: Relating to the Māori people * Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group * Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand * Māori culture * Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the Co ...

'', International Award *

Boris Pahor Boris Pahor, OMRI (; 26 August 1913 – 30 May 2022) was a Slovene novelist from Trieste, Italy, who was best known for his heartfelt descriptions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in pre–Second World War increasingly fascist Ita ...

''language: Slovene'', National Award * Ives Rouquette ''language:

'', Award for the Occitan language * Constantino Canales ''language: Huave'', Young Writers Award * Arturo Viano ''language:

'', Translation Award

edition 3, year 2011

3–5 June *

Vincenzo Consolo Vincenzo Consolo (18 February 1933 – 21 January 2012) was an Italian writer. Consolo was born in Sant'Agata di Militello but resided in Milan from 1969 until his death. He began his literary career in 1963, but gained wider attention in 197 ...

''language: Sicilian'', Special Award * Harkaitz Cano ''language:

Basque Basque may refer to: * Basques, an ethnic group of Spain and France * Basque language, their language Places * Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France * Basque Country (autonomous co ...

'', International Award *

Andrea Nicolussi Gold Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew. Origin of the name The name derives from the Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós''), that ref ...

''language:

Cimbrian Cimbrian (, ; ; ) is any of several local Upper German varieties spoken in parts of the Italian regions of Trentino and Veneto. The speakers of the language are known as in German. Cimbrian is a Germanic language related to Bavarian most ...

'', National Award *

Aurélia Lassaque Aurelia (also spelled Aurelía, Aurélia or Aurelija) is a feminine given name from the Latin family name Aurelius, which was derived from ''aureus'' meaning "golden". The name began from early saints. Aurelia may refer to: Pre-modern world * ...

''language:

'', Award for the Occitan language * Tuntiak Katan ''language:

Shuar The Shuar, also known as Jivaro, are an indigenous ethnic group that inhabits the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazonia. They are famous for their hunting skills and their tradition of head shrinking, known as Tzantsa. The Shuar language belongs to ...

'', Young Writers Award * Reuven Miran ''language:

Hebrew Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...

'', Translation Award

edition 4, year 2012

2–3 June *

Sergio Salvi Sergio may refer to: * Sergio (name), for people with the given name Sergio * Sergio (carbonado), the largest rough diamond ever found * Sergio, the mascot for the Old Orchard Beach Surge baseball team * ''Sergio'', a 2009 documentary film about ...

, ''writer'', Special Award * Kerttu Vuolab ''language:

Sami Acronyms * SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft * Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company * South African Malaria Initiative, a virtual expertise ne ...

'', International Award * Joseph Zoderer ''language: German'', National Award * Sergi Bec ''language:

'', Award for the Occitan language * Maite Brazales ''language: Catalan'', Young Writers Award * Diegu Corràine ''language: Sardinian'', Translation Award

edition 5, year 2013

1–2 June * Chenreb Gyamtso, known as Nodreng ''language:

Tibetan Tibetan may mean: * of, from, or related to Tibet * Tibetan people, an ethnic group * Tibetan language: ** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard ** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dial ...

'', Special Award * Mehmet Altun ''language:

Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish language ** Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) **Central Kurdish (Sorani) **Southern Kurdish ** Laki Kurdish *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern ...

'', International Award * Rut Bernardi ''language: Ladin'', National Award * Joan Larzac ''language:

'', Award for the Occitan language * Antony Heulin ''language:

Breton Breton most often refers to: *anything associated with Brittany, and generally **Breton people **Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany ** Breton (horse), a breed **Gale ...

'', Young Writers Award * Francesco Ferrucci ''language: Catalan'', Translation Award

edition 6, year 2014

31 May – 2 June *

Marcel Courthiade Marcel Courthiade (; 2 August 1953 – 4 March 2021) was a French Romani linguist and researcher. Biography Courthiade had originally studied medicine at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, but then shifted his focus on Slavic languages—partic ...

''language:

Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnic groups * Romani people, or Roma, an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin ** Romani language, an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities ** Romanichal, Romani subgroup in the United Kingdom * Romanians (Romanian ...

'', Special Award * Lance David Henson ''language:

Cheyenne The Cheyenne ( ) are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains. The Cheyenne comprise two Native American tribes, the Só'taeo'o or Só'taétaneo'o (more commonly spelled as Suhtai or Sutaio) and the (also spelled Tsitsistas, The term for th ...

'', International Award * Franco Marchetta ''language:

'', National Award * Danielle Julien ''language:

'', Award for the Occitan language * Arno Camenisch ''language: Romansh'', Young Writers Award * Anthony Aquilina ''language:

Maltese Maltese may refer to: * Someone or something of, from, or related to Malta * Maltese alphabet * Maltese cuisine * Maltese culture * Maltese language, the Semitic language spoken by Maltese people * Maltese people, people from Malta or of Maltese ...

'', Translation Award

edition 7, year 2015

30 May – 2 June * Jun Tiburcio Perez Gonzales (Jun Tiburcio) ''language: Totonacan'', Special Award * Jacques Thiers ''language: Corsican'', International Award *

Antonia Arslan Antonia Arslan (, born 1938) is an Italian writer and Professor, academic of Armenians, Armenian origin. Biography Arslan was born in Padua in 1938 to Michele Arslan and Vittoria Marchiori. Her paternal grandfather Yerwant Arslanian was born i ...

''language:

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian diaspora, Armenian communities around the ...

'', National Award *

James Thomas James Thomas may refer to: Politicians * James Thomas (Australian politician) (1826–1884), civil engineer who was Director of Public Works in Western Australia, 1876–1884 * James Thomas (Governor of Maryland) (1785–1845), served as the 23rd ...

''language:

'', Award for the Occitan language * Niillas Holmberg ''language:

'', Young Writers Award * Clive Boutle Translation Award

edition 8, year 2016

2–5 June *

Kola Tubosun Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún (; born 22 September 1981) is a Nigerian linguist, writer, translator, scholar, cultural activist and film-maker.

'' language: Yoruba'', Special Award * María Clara Sharupi Jua ''language:

'', International Award * Salvatore Tommasi ''language:

Griko Griko (endonym: /), sometimes spelled Grico, is one of the two dialects of Italiot Greek (the other being Calabrian Greek or ), spoken by Griko people in Salento, province of Lecce, Italy. Some Greek linguists consider it to be a Modern Greek ...

'', National Award * Joan Ganiayre ''language:

'', Award for the Occitan language * Tsead Bruinja ''language: West Frisian'', Young Writers Award * Lurdes Auzmendi ''language:

'', Translation Award

Awards to artistic career

* Rocco De Santis ''language:

'', Award for Musical Composition *

Renato Morelli Renato Morelli (Campobasso, 17 July 1905 – Rome, 10 March 1977) was an anti-fascist, Liberal Italian lawyer and politician who served as Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Italy in the Badoglio ...

Film Award

edition 9, year 2017

Salem Zenia Salem Zenia (born September 26, 1962 in Freha, Tizi Ouzou Province, Algeria) is a Kabyle writer. He studied in Frèha and later in Azazga High School and journalism (distance studies) in Ecole Universalis (Liège, Belgique) . He has worked as ...

''language:

Amazigh Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also known as Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Maghreb. Their main connections are identified by their u ...

''- Kabyle, Special Award * Joséphine Bacon ''language :

Innu The Innu/Ilnu ('man, person'), formerly called Montagnais (French for ' mountain people'; ), are the Indigenous Canadians who inhabit northeastern Labrador in present-day Newfoundland and Labrador and some portions of Quebec. They refer to ...

,'' International Award * Francesco Severini ''language: linguistic minorities of Italy'', National Award * Roland Pecout ''language:

,'' Award for the Occitan language * Erlend O. Nodtvedt ''language:

Nynorsk Nynorsk (; ) is one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language (''Landsmål''), parallel to the Da ...

,'' Giovani Award * Gwyn Griffiths ''language:

Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, of or about Wales * Welsh language, spoken in Wales * Welsh people, an ethnic group native to Wales Places * Welsh, Arkansas, U.S. * Welsh, Louisiana, U.S. * Welsh, Ohio, U.S. * Welsh Basin, during t ...

,'' Translation Award

Awards to artistic career

* Mans De Breish ''language:'' Award for Musical Composition in the Occitan language * Samir Aït Belkacem ''language: Kabyle,'' Film award

edition 10, year 2018

Bob Holman Bob Holman is an American poet and poetry activist, most closely identified with the oral tradition, the spoken word, and poetry slam. As a promoter of poetry in many media, Holman has spent the last four decades working variously as an author ...

, a celebratory prize of the decennial *, Special Award * Adil Olluri, International Award * , Minority award for historical language of Italy. * , Occitan Language Award *

Doireann Ní Ghríofa Doireann Ní Ghríofa is an Irish poet and essayist who writes in both Irish and English. Biography Doireann Ní Ghríofa was born in Galway in 1981 but grew up in County Clare. She now lives in County Cork. Ní Ghríofa has been published w ...

, Giovani Award * Aleksej Leontiev, Translation Award * , Prize for Musical Composition * , Cinema Award

edition 11, year 2019

* Tilbert Dídac Stegmann, Special prize (Learning Romance, Slavic, Germanic languages through the EuroComRom method - The Seven Sieves - Germany) *

Manuel Rivas Manuel Rivas Barrós (born 24 October 1957 in A Coruña, Spain) is a Spanish writer, poet and journalist. Biography Manuel Rivas Barrós began his writing career at the age of 15. He has written articles and literary essays for Spanish newspap ...

, International award

(Spain) * Anna Maria Bacher, Historical linguistic minorities prize in Italy Walser language (Italy) * ,

Award Occitan language (France) * Dariia "Neseni" Martynova, Youth Award Lingua even (Siberia, Russia) * Craig Patterson,

Galician Language Galician ( , ), also known as Galego (), is a Iberian Romance languages, Western Ibero-Romance language. Around 2.4 million people have at least some degree of competence in the language, mainly in Galicia (Spain), Galicia, an Autonomo ...

Translation Prize (Spain) * Franca Masu, Music composition award,

of Alghero (Italy) *

Marcelo Martinessi Marcelo Martinessi (born 1 January 1973) is a Paraguayan filmmaker. His films include "Karai norte" (2009), "The Lost Voice" (2016), and ''The Heiresses'' (), the latter being selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 68th Berlin Internatio ...

, Cinema award,

Guarani language Guarani (Avañe'ẽ), also called Paraguayan Guarani, is a language of South America that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani branch of the Tupian languages, Tupian language family. It is one of the two official languages of Paraguay (along with Spa ...

(Paraguay)

edition 12 (2020) and edition 13 (2021)

Both editions were held without awardees because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

edition 14, 2022

* Diego Marani (

Europanto Europanto is a macaronic language concept with a fluid vocabulary from European languages of the user's choice or need. It was conceived in 1996 by Diego Marani (a journalist, author and translator for the European Council of Ministers in Bruss ...

language-game) - Special Prize * (

Aragonese language Aragonese ( ; in Aragonese) is a Romance languages, Romance language spoken in several dialects by about 12,000 people as of 2011, in the Pyrenees valleys of Aragon, Spain, primarily in the Comarca#Spain, comarcas of Somontano de Barbastro, Ja ...

– Spain) - International Prize * Rosalba Perini (

Friulan language Friulian ( ) or Friulan (natively or ; ; ; ) is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance family. Friulian is spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy and has around 600,000 speakers, the vast majority of whom also speak It ...

) - Historic Linguistic Minorities Award in Italy * (

Tibetan language Tibetan language may refer to: * Lhasa Tibetan or Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dialect * Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard * Any of the other Tibetic languages See also * Ol ...

– Nepal) - Youth Award * (

– Spain) - Translation Award * Paulina Kamakine (

– France) - Occitan language award * Marine Lavigne (

– France) - Music Composition Award * (

– Italy) - Cinema award.

edition 15, year 2023

23 June – 25 June * Hawad (

Air Tamajeq language Air Tamajeq (''Tayərt'') is a variety of Tuareg. It is spoken by the Tuareg people inhabiting the Aïr Mountains of the Agadez Region in Niger. ''Ethnologue'' lists two dialects: ''Air (Tayərt)'' and ''Tanassfarwat (Tamagarast/Taməsgərəst)'' ...

) - Special Prize *

Bernardo Atxaga Bernardo Atxaga (born 27 July 1951), pseudonym of Joseba Irazu Garmendia, is a Spanish Basque writer and self-translator. He is a full member of the Royal Academy of the Basque Language since 2006, in November 2010, he was also named a member ...

(

) - International Prize * (

Asturian language Asturian (; )Art. 1 de lLey 1/1998, de 23 de marzo, de uso y promoción del bable/asturiano aw 1/93, of March 23, on the Use and Promotion of the Asturian Language/nowiki> is a West Iberian languages, West Iberian Romance languages, Roman ...

) - Youth Award * Julie Perreard (

) - Cinema Award * Fiona J. Mackenzie (

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic (, ; Endonym and exonym, endonym: ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a member of the Goidelic language, Goidelic branch of Celtic, Scottish Gaelic, alongs ...

) - Music Composition Award * Monica Longobardi (

) - Translation Award * Sarah Laurenç Zurawczak (

) - Occitan language award * Liliana Bertolo Boniface (

Franco-Provençal Franco-Provençal (also Francoprovençal, Patois or Arpitan) is a Gallo-Romance languages, Gallo-Romance language that originated and is spoken in eastern France, western Switzerland, and northwestern Italy. Franco-Provençal has several di ...

) - Historic Linguistic Minorities Award in Italy

References

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