Aranese: Spain's little-known language

Re:Aranese: Spain's little-known language by gerardvivancos on Thursday January 20, 2022 @07:42PM (#30017648)

Historically, those taxes had been used to pay for wars and other acts that were used to spread Castillian in regions it was not spoken. Both in the Peninsula and South America.

Nowadays, taxpayers money funds institutions that preserve and promote Castillian.

Maybe don’t try to kill languages and life support won’t be needed.

Also, it makes more sense to spend in preserving something fragile than to promote something already popular and strong.

I am inclined to think it is not the taxpayers money that you are after

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Re:Aranese: Spain's little-known language by overkalix on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:02AM (#30020537)

A classic of Spanish nationalism: produce laws/actions that create obstacles in the use of other languages, leading to Spanish being overwhelmingly used. Then those asymmetries in use are utilized to justify other laws that further deepen the inequality.

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Re:Aranese: Spain's little-known language by mchaver on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:01AM (#30020959)

I think if Spain had taken a more Swiss approach towards federalization and language, it would be a much stronger nation. A lot of regional tension is a result of the central government blocking or overriding local decisions and political parties using non-Castillian identity as a scapegoat.

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Re:Aranese: Spain's little-known language by cronopios on Friday January 21, 2022 @06:16AM (#30021997)

I wholeheartedly agree with you!

Unfortunately, most don't see it that way. All those partisan attitudes make me sad.

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