II and include all vernacular languages spoken on French soil. Yet again, non-French languages in France were denied official recognition and deemed too dangerous for the unity of the country,[28] and Occitans, Basques, Corsicans, Catalans, Flemings, Bretons, Alsatians, Nissarts, Savoyards have still no explicit legal right to conduct public affairs in their regional languages within their home lands. The text was again refused[29] by majority deputies on January 18, 2008, after the Académie française voiced their absolute disapproval[30][31] of regional languages, the recognition of which they perceive as "an attack on French national identity".[32]