Re:Hand of Irulegi: ancient artefact could help trace origin...
by germandiago on Thursday November 17, 2022 @01:29AM
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> Claiming that it didn't exist before the 70s is rather a stretch.
Hey, noone said this! Read back what I said. What I said is that the state of the language was bad. Because it was only spoken in villages not in urban area and for lack of standardization/normalization. So they did have to reconstruct a part of it.
> And it had to be recovered because using the language was literally criminalized during the dictatorship.
As far as I understand (know that my family if of valencian speakers, so do not think I am talking out of thin air) local languages were out of the education system but not forbidden or criminalized. Namely: it was not illegal to speak those. It is just that they were not used in the education or administration, which I admit it can have an impact.
> having to bribe officials to give basque names to their children.
Interesting, did not know about this, but yes, I do believe it.
Hey, noone said this! Read back what I said. What I said is that the state of the language was bad. Because it was only spoken in villages not in urban area and for lack of standardization/normalization. So they did have to reconstruct a part of it.
> And it had to be recovered because using the language was literally criminalized during the dictatorship.
As far as I understand (know that my family if of valencian speakers, so do not think I am talking out of thin air) local languages were out of the education system but not forbidden or criminalized. Namely: it was not illegal to speak those. It is just that they were not used in the education or administration, which I admit it can have an impact.
> having to bribe officials to give basque names to their children.
Interesting, did not know about this, but yes, I do believe it.