# Language news, Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Compiled by Richard Brooks's language news desk. Canonical: https://richard-brooks.com/language-news/2026-10-06/

## Buenos Aires Province enacts law to promote Argentine Sign Language

Policy. Argentina's most populous province now has to build LSA access into public policy and work with Education on curriculum content. The test is which body is named to run it, and whether Deaf people still face courts and clinics without interpreters.

Source: Honorable Cámara de Diputados de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, https://intranet.hcdiputados-ba.gov.ar/refleg/lw15632.pdf

## Latvia confines Russian on public media LSM to emergencies

Policy. A parliament has pulled a large minority language from public service media almost entirely, after its own Legal Bureau preferred the public media council's softer plan. It still needs the President's signature.

Source: Saeima of the Republic of Latvia, https://www.saeima.lv/lv/aktualitates/saeimas-zinas/36234-stiprina-latviesu-valodas-lomu-sabiedriskaja-medija