A great example of the continuous 150 years of intense work killing regional languages by the French Republic for the sake of national unity.
Hethsegew on
France, the death row of peoples.
sraige4443 on
The French ‘revolution’ was a mistake.
ale_93113 on
Thankfully now in France you can communicate with anyone of any region in French
Same thing has happened in Italy and Germany, it was quite common in the past to not understand people on the other side of the country, but the wonders of mass education and language standardization have helped massively
The US has an economic advantage in being a very large market with a single language understood by virtually everyone, a thing the EU struggles with
But at least it’s not as bad as it used to be
Special_marshmallow on
This map is BS since Savoy and Nice were not part of France in 1836. France has never undertaken such a census, and French being the Royal language since 1525 makes it very unlikely any area had 0 comprehension of French, especially when Occitan is 80% mutually intelligible with French.
aetius5 on
No source, unhistorical map (Meurthe-et-Moselle was created after 1871), it’s definitely a completely wrong map as usual here.
gdch93 on
I am learning Gascon and Basque, because my family is from Bayonne originally. My Spanish helps me a lot have a more natural pronunciation, but it is a shame to see what they have done to regional languages there.
Fortunately, some pupils go to different schools where they get linguistic immersion in one regional language and you can save these languages from disappearing, but the French people are very conservative about anything regional.
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A great example of the continuous 150 years of intense work killing regional languages by the French Republic for the sake of national unity.
France, the death row of peoples.
The French ‘revolution’ was a mistake.
Thankfully now in France you can communicate with anyone of any region in French
Same thing has happened in Italy and Germany, it was quite common in the past to not understand people on the other side of the country, but the wonders of mass education and language standardization have helped massively
The US has an economic advantage in being a very large market with a single language understood by virtually everyone, a thing the EU struggles with
But at least it’s not as bad as it used to be
This map is BS since Savoy and Nice were not part of France in 1836. France has never undertaken such a census, and French being the Royal language since 1525 makes it very unlikely any area had 0 comprehension of French, especially when Occitan is 80% mutually intelligible with French.
No source, unhistorical map (Meurthe-et-Moselle was created after 1871), it’s definitely a completely wrong map as usual here.
I am learning Gascon and Basque, because my family is from Bayonne originally. My Spanish helps me a lot have a more natural pronunciation, but it is a shame to see what they have done to regional languages there.
Fortunately, some pupils go to different schools where they get linguistic immersion in one regional language and you can save these languages from disappearing, but the French people are very conservative about anything regional.