This open access book presents a comprehensive collection of the European Language Equality
(ELE) project's results its strategic agenda and roadmap with key recommendations to the
European Union on how to achieve digital language equality in Europe by 2030. The fabric of the
EU linguistic landscape comprises 24 official languages and over 60 regional and minority
languages. However language barriers still hamper communication and the free flow of
information. Multilingualism is a key cultural cornerstone of Europe signifying what it means
to be and to feel European. Various studies and resolutions have found a striking imbalance in
the support of Europe's languages through technologies issuing a call to action. Following an
introduction the book is divided into two parts. The first part describes the state of the art
of language technology and language-centric AI and the definition and metrics developed to
measure digital language equality. It also presents the status quo in 2022 2023 i.e. the
current level of technology support for over 30 European languages. The second part describes
plans and recommendations on how to bring about digital language equality in Europe by 2030. It
includes chapters on the setup and results of the community consultation process four
technical deep dives an overview of existing strategic documents and an abridged version of
the strategic agenda and roadmap. The recommendations have been prepared jointly with the
European community in the fields of language technology natural language processing and
language-centric AI as well as with representatives of relevant initiatives and associations
language communities and regional and minority language groups. Ensuring appropriate technology
support for all European languages will not only create jobs growth and opportunities in the
digital single market. Overcoming language barriers in the digital environment is also
essential for an inclusive society and for providing unity in diversity for many years to come.
