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Re:The language the French forbade by pjmlp on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:08AM (#17976638)
To give an example similar to fao_, very few foreigners are aware that Portugal actually has two official languages.

Mirandese used to be a very local language spoken in the north, and it was a dying language.

The last couple of years, a group of people started pushing to rescue it, and nowadays the situation has improve a lot with published books, dictionaries, even Asterix gets published in Mirandese and it gets taught to children on the primary schools on the region as additional activity.

Will this save the language long term? Maybe not, but I really like that they at least are trying to keep it alive.

Re:The language the French forbade by taejo on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:54AM (#17977073)
> even Asterix gets published in Mirandese

Asterix seems to be a favourite for minority languages. There are seventy Asterix albums published in German regional dialects: https://www.asterix.com/de/die-buecher/die-asterix-mundart-r...

Re:The language the French forbade by dnnrly on Saturday September 22, 2018 @09:01AM (#18045809)
My dad learned French from Asterix after he married my (French) mum while spending summer's out there with her family. Coincidentally in Provençe.

I wonder if the mix of pictures along with uncomplicated but correct dialogue makes Asterix popular for promoting languages.

Re:The language the French forbade by pjmlp on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:24AM (#17977197)
Oh, now I need to get Plattdeutsch and Kölsh editions. :)