In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks that would be a loss.
  • Miaou@jlai.lu
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    3 days ago

    We French never took our regional languages back, although some areas are still fighting for theirs. So much culture lost.

    • Che Banana@beehaw.org
      2·
      3 days ago

      Up in Catalunya (Barcelona) the dialect is very french-spanish influenced, (but don’t let anyone from there catch you saying it, lol) and Valenciano is a little less so.