Sergo Yeritsyan says provinces are in more poor state in regard to lingual violations than Yerevan

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 30, ARMENPRESS: The Language State Inspectorate subordinated to the Armenian Ministry of Education and Science has implemented this year 105 revisions; about 500 entrepreneurial subjects have received warnings on lingual violations, and an act of another company is in the court.

Sergo Yeritsyan, acting officer of the Head of State Language Inspectorate, told today journalists that perfect legislative field is necessary for taking proper language control. According to him, there are some flaws in the sphere today, which hinders in full consolidation of the language policy. To fulfill those flaws the State Language Inspectorate has come forth with a number of initiatives, particularly, on making amendments in the laws on advertisement, administrative violations and on television and radio.

Mr. Yeritsyan said that provinces are in more poor state in regard to lingual violations than Yerevan. “We have studied the towns of Ijevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor, Kapan and Noyemberyan: except the well known foreign language signboards, violations in our other towns have not been registered. The violations in Yerevan, too, were not so apparent 3-4 years ago,” Mr. Yeritsyan stressed, adding that foreign language signboards comprise a great number in Yerevan, the names of the majority of the taxies are in English.

“We must speak about language every day, language issues must be in the center of our everyday attention,” Mr. Yeritsyan said, expressing hope that distinctly worked out legislation will get rid of the issues of the sphere.