French Polynesia's territorial assembly is today due to debate a proposal to be put to Paris to change the French constitution in order to recognise Tahitian as an official language.
The issue has arisen again after the French supreme court last month struck out two local laws about pension provisions because not all of the debate in the assembly had been in French.
The assembly's president, Edouard Fritch, has already asked the French President to accommodate the Tahitian language, pointing out that all debates in Tahiti have simultaneous translations and all records are kept in French.
While striking out the laws, the court said Tahitian was recognised to guarantee French Polynesia's identity and diversity and the French constitution upheld that all regional languages belong to the heritage of France.
