Editing Corsican language (section)

== Governmental support ==
[[Image:Corsican nationalism.jpg|thumb|Bilingual road-signs, with the official ([[Institut géographique national|IGN]]) names (often with their roots in Italian) being crossed out by some [[Corsican nationalism|local nationalists]].]]
When the French Assembly passed the Deixonne Law in 1951, which made it possible for regional languages to be taught at school, [[Alsatian dialect|Alsatian]], [[French Flemish|Flemish]] and Corsican were not included on the ground of being classified as ''dialectes allogènes'' of German, Dutch and Italian respectively,{{Sfn|Delamotte-Legrand|François|Porcher|1997}} i.e. dialects of foreign languages and not languages in themselves.{{Sfn|Sibille|2019|p=85–107}} Only in 1974 were they too politically recognized as regional languages for their teaching on a voluntary basis.

The 1991 Joxe Statute, in setting up the Collectivité Territoriale de Corse, also provided for the [[Corsican Assembly]], and charged it with developing a plan for the optional teaching of Corsican. The [[University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli]] at [[Corte, Haute-Corse]] took a central role in the planning.<ref>{{cite web|title=Insular Autonomy: A Framework for Conflict Settlement? A Comparative Study of Corsica and the Åland Islands|first=Farimah|last=Daftary|publisher=European Centre For Minority Issues (ECMI)|date=October 2000|url=http://www.ecmi.de/download/working_paper_9.pdf|access-date=2008-06-13|pages=10–11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002120938/http://www.ecmi.de/download/working_paper_9.pdf|archive-date=2008-10-02|url-status=dead}}</ref>

At the primary school level Corsican is taught up to a fixed number of hours per week (three in the year 2000) and is a voluntary subject at the secondary school level,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barat |first=Michel |date=9 September 2010 |language=fr |url=http://www.ac-corse.fr/lcc_20/file/1890/ |title=Dispositif académique d'enseignement de la langue corse dans le premier degré, année scolaire 2010–2011 |publisher=Academy of Corsica |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703133923/http://www.ac-corse.fr/lcc_20/file/1890/ |archive-date=2014-07-03}}</ref> but is required at the University of Corsica. It is available through adult education. It can be spoken in court or in the conduct of other government business if the officials concerned speak it. The Cultural Council of the Corsican Assembly advocates for its use, for example, on public signs.

In 2023, in a judgement initiated by local prefect and going in opposite direction of recent trends, usage of the Corsican language in French public offices and the regional parliament was legally banned, the existence of the "Corsican people" was also deemed unconstitutional.<ref>{{Cite news |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=10 March 2023 |title=Corsican language ban stirs protest on French island |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/10/corsica-language-ban-stirs-protest-on-french-island |access-date=2023-03-11 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>