Page "European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages" Paragraph 2

The charter provides a large number of different actions state parties can take to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages.

There are two levels of protection — all signatories must apply the lower level of protection to qualifying languages.

Signatories may further declare that a qualifying language or languages will benefit from the higher level of protection, which lists a range of actions from which states must agree to undertake at least 35.